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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Kilgore leads his cavalry into air battle to the strains of Wagner, taking out combatants in between swigs of coffee.
From Los Angeles Times
The rock shattered the glass and led to a cut on R.T.’s forehead.
From Los Angeles Times
His confused response to the issue led the school to investigate other elements of his CV, including his claims of holding a masters degree in history from Cambridge.
From BBC
The project team has warned delaying the restoration of the historic building, which costs £1.5m a week to maintain, would lead to "an expensive managed decline of the Palace".
From BBC
The author and TV personality appears throughout, providing commentary on his neighborhood’s most notorious event and leading haunted-house tours of Old Louisville.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
