PRECEDING in a Sentence

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213 example sentences for PRECEDING, such as:

1. He preceded me as chairman of the department.
2. The days that preceded were filled with activity.
3. Repeat the exercises described in the preceding section.
4. He preceded his speech with a warning against inattention.
5. The author anticipated the question in a preceding chapter.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRECEDING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
preceding
 a.  ahead; prior to
Classic Sentence: (185 in 13 pages)
1  The sufferer, who had been so gloomy and cast down on the preceding day, was radiant.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  He decided on his course of action, and gave the door a third push, more energetic than the two preceding.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
3  It had rained on the preceding night; the soil was soaked.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—FATHER FAUCHELEVENT
4  Fantine had grown ten years older since the preceding night.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—RESULT OF THE SUCCESS
5  The violent conflict which had been going on within him since the preceding evening was not yet ended; and every moment he encountered some new phase of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII—THE TRAVELLER ON HIS ARRIVAL TAKES PRECAUTION...
6  In the preceding year, Wellington, with the sagacity of foresight, had examined it as the possible seat of a great battle.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—A
7  Bouvines and Fontenoy were mentioned as though they had taken place on the preceding day, Austerlitz having become antiquated.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—A RECRUDESCENCE OF DIVINE RIGHT
8  So when the mother ceased to pay altogether, the reason for which we have read in preceding chapters, the Thenardiers kept Cosette.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
9  It will be remembered that already, during his preceding escape, he had made a mysterious trip thither, or somewhere in that neighborhood, of which the law had gathered an inkling.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XI—NUMBER 9,430 REAPPEARS, AND COSETTE WINS IT IN...
10  Thence it results that, in the preceding book, I have spoken of a convent with respectful accents.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE CONVENT FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF PRINCIPL...
11  Every combination thought out by Jean Valjean had been progressing, and progressing favorably, since the preceding day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—BETWEEN FOUR PLANKS
12  The two old men had gone to fetch Cosette from the fruiterer's in the Rue du Chemin-Vert, where Fauchelevent had deposited her on the preceding day.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
13  The porter admitted all three of them through this door, and from that point they reached the inner, reserved parlor where Fauchelevent, on the preceding day, had received his orders from the prioress.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII—A SUCCESSFUL INTERROGATORY
14  This specimen of Vendean paper money had been nailed to the wall by the preceding gardener, an old Chouan, who had died in the convent, and whose place Fauchelevent had taken.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX—CLOISTERED
15  As on the preceding day, she wore her damask gown and her crape bonnet.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER IV—BEGINNING OF A GREAT MALADY
Example Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  It displays the relationship between the target item and the preceding entry.
2  Each faucet had a corner immediately preceding the opening through which the water came out.
3  The posterior leg pairs were slightly longer than those preceding it, giving the creature a pronounced trough between its 'back' and the vertically oriented front end.
4  The author anticipated the question in a preceding chapter.
5  Repeat the exercises described in the preceding section.
6  The paintings are a development of ideas she explored in the preceding decade.
7  The days that preceded were filled with activity.
8  Intensive negotiations between the main parties preceded the vote.
9  He preceded me as chairman of the department.
10  Any discussion of legal action must be preceded by a caveat on costs.
11  He preceded his speech with a warning against inattention.
12  Lunch will be preceded by a short speech from the chairman.
13  In his last two years as pope, Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests for raping and molesting children, more than twice as many as the two years that preceded a 2010 explosion of sex abuse cases in Europe and beyond
14  Agricultural development simply must precede economic development.
15  It is a rule of English that adjectives generally precede the noun they modify: we say "a good cry", not "a cry good".