Thesaurus / precede
FEEDBACKHow to use precede in a sentence
To the invitation to precede him she readily responded, and, with a bow to the Seneschal, she began to walk across the apartment.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIHe made way for her to precede him in the narrow wood path, and then silently followed her up the glen.
RUTHELIZABETH CLEGHORN GASKELLAs causes precede effects, the causal order and the time order generally coincide.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERThere was something almost ghastly in this terrific silence which could only precede some unnatural tumult.
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAMIt was only on the first landing that the servant stood aside with the tray to allow me to precede her.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSThat if one thing makes us think of another as preceding or following it, that other must precede it or follow it in actual fact.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILL(Would number then precede the essences) only in thought and conception, or also in the hypostatic existence?
PLOTINOS: COMPLETE WORKS, V. 3PLOTINOS (PLOTINUS)He motioned to the prowler to precede him and, hesitating a moment, it did so.
SPACE PRISONTOM GODWINHe then holds this open, and the women precede him, he following them.
THE COMPLETE BACHELORWALTER GERMAINThere is no order of entry, except that the host should precede and the others follow.
THE COMPLETE BACHELORWALTER GERMAINWORDS RELATED TO PRECEDE
- acquaint
- advance
- air
- announce
- bring out
- bring up
- broach
- come out with
- do the honors
- familiarize
- fix up
- get things rolling
- get-together
- give introduction
- harbinger
- herald
- kick off
- knock down
- lead into
- lead off
- moot
- offer
- open
- open up
- originate
- pave the way
- precede
- preface
- propose
- put forward
- recommend
- set forth
- spring with
- start ball rolling
- submit
- suggest
- usher
- ventilate
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