lead
Usage
What are other ways to say lead?
To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort them to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station.
Example Sentences
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This can lead to higher wage demands and an additional round of higher prices.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Durham are set to resume on 83-2 in the second innings of their opening Championship game of the new domestic season and lead Kent by 221 runs.
From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026
While other appointees have been forced out by judges, Bill Essayli has been allowed to lead the L.A. office under the title of ‘first assistant U.S. attorney.’
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 5, 2026
"The human eye is basically the best camera that could ever or will ever exist," Kelsey Young, the lead scientist for the Artemis 2 mission, told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
And so I let her lead me down to her bedroom, I let her choose a somber navy dress, I let her brush out my hair and pin it back.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
