Learn ANTECEDENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
1. That was antecedent to this event.
2. Those are the antecedents, and the culmination.
3. Charles Babbage's mechanical calculating engines were the antecedents of the modern computer.
4. The first difficulty which we had to contend with was the finding of this American's antecedents.
5. The invention of the radiotelegraph should antecede the development of television by a quarter of a century.
Meanings and Examples of ANTECEDENT |