How to Use precede in a Sentence

precede

verb

• She preceded him into the room.
• The chairman preceded the meeting with a brief welcoming speech.
• The meeting was preceded by a brief welcoming speech.
• The new mayor is very different from the person who preceded her in office.
• The country became more conservative in the years that preceded his election.
• Riots preceded the civil war.
• Weeks of tests precede the launch, and the rocket is left exposed to the salty air.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2022
• The vine features white blooms that precede the fuzzy brown fruits.
  — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Oct. 2022
• The five fights that appear in bold are the main card bouts, and the ones that will be preceded by a movie in The Sphere.
  — Brian Mazique, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2024
• If the preceding forty-five minutes fail to catch fire, though, the night grows long.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• Here’s the video of the benches clearing, and the Garcia homer that preceded it.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• These are the cars that precede the riders before each stage.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 29 June 2022
• Recipes are ideas that are made by people, and all of the messy stuff that can precede them is a reminder of that fact.
  — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Mar. 2021
• But this war is on a much greater scale, and of course was preceded by a massacre in Israel.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2023
• Much of that moisture will precede a cold front, which will enhance the risk of heavy downpours.
  — Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2021
• The four-song release is, in a sense, a remedy to the album that preceded it.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2023
• Or maybe those were supposed to precede the rush of new residents.
  — Greg Jefferson, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Nov. 2021
• The dream of opening a restaurant preceded his itch to own a brewery.
  — Brandon Hernández, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 May 2024
• Instead, the shocking gunshot that precedes the film’s title card sets the table for a flashback to the past.
  — Manuel Betancourt, Variety, 25 Nov. 2024
• Both tracks precede the singer's sixth mainstream studio album, which is set to drop on Sept. 20.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2024
• My thinking was this: This is a heated issue not just of our time but times that precede us.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2022
• Calling hours will precede the service from 10 a.m. to noon at the funeral home.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 2 Feb. 2023
• Madoff’s two sons, who also worked at the firm but were never charged, precede him.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 14 Apr. 2021
• It was also preceded by the announcement of a 2024 arena tour that is set to launch in March.
  — Thania Garcia, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• There is a healthy dose of nail-biting preceding all that science.
  — Thomas Farragher, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2023
• These sorts of listings appear in the weeks or months that precede the official launch of new products.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 18 Jan. 2022
• Rose's family holds ties with the monarchy that precede her.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2023
• The footage was preceded by a recorded message from Rogen and Ice Cube.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 20 July 2023
• In Sheehy’s telling, the era immediately preceding her own had been the one in which menopause was the life stage that dare not speak its name.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
• At least five other search engines preceded Google—all were initially better funded.
  — Rich Karlgaard, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025