Used in a Sentence

preceding

How to use preceding in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for preceding.

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When a person's age is next to their name, preceding all actual data, you just know some real _A class bullshit_ is coming your way. And hey, it holds true!

Examples16
Definitions2
Parts of speech1

Quick take

existing or coming before

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of preceding gathered in one view.

adjective

existing or coming before

adjective

of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for preceding.

adjective

existing or coming before

adjective

of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board"

Example sentences

1

When a person's age is next to their name, preceding all actual data, you just know some real _A class bullshit_ is coming your way. And hey, it holds true!

2

There've been good years in the preceding decade. Except for 3D. But how much of an effect is 3D having?

3

A group in the 70's found statistically significant evidence for them preceding cosmic showers. They were so sure of their results that they published.

4

* - zero or more of the preceding character/group + - one or more of the preceding character/group ? - zero or one of the preceding character/group $ - end of line ^ - beginning of line .

5

Why on earth wouldn't you place this explanation in a comment preceding the line of code itself? One of the best things I ever learned in programming is that you shouldn't write code to be executed -- you should write code to be read and understood by other people.

6

In almost every case that I can recall it's been a result of a company having cash flow problems, often preceding bankruptcy. The article mentions that interest rates were high in the early 80s and it allowed AA to expand.

7

"There's no possible reason for people to support these programs", the preceding comment says, "and so it is pointless and even harmful for us to talk about possible reasons".

8

Just like your preceding, you established a corrupt administration hell-bent upon restriction of freedom and secrecy. You are no better than Bush, and regardless of what party differences both of you had, you are one and the same behind the scenes.

9

The preceding comment, on the other hand, labels the six subjects of the article as "active participants in the machinery used to oppress the Iranian people".

10

The real point of the preceding paragraphs not being to prove that my beliefs are true, as justifying them here would be a waste of time, but that the assumption that not voting Democrat must be motivated by stupidity and lack of self-interest is not fully justified. There are good reasons not to vote Democrat.

11

The problem is that all evidence over the preceding decades is against this. The US and England threw out the secular, democratic Mossadegh in Iran in the 1950s, and then the CIA helped the Shah's Savak jail or kill off anyone in the country supporting a return to a secular democracy.

12

Whether there's a byline under the title or a short intro sentence/paragraph preceding the article, knowing who you are gives the reader a way to frame what your story. Because the tech industry is so heterosexual male-dominated, when I read that the author was engaged to the CEO, I first assumed I had misunderstood, then I thought the author was a gay man.

13

I read the preceding paragraph several times and I'm coming up empty: Based on our experiences at Filepicker. io we learned that it is important to delineate the differences when planning initiatives that drive growth, the amount of resources needed and the profile of team members required to drive the initiatives.

14

AdWords and AdSense policies tell advertisers and publishers that advertiser spending on evicted publishers are refunded for the preceding 60 days. Because this policy has to do with revenue recognition, it's presumably under SOX control, so it would be difficult and very risky to willfully violate it.

15

</p> If that's your text, and the cursor is at the pipe: ciw # remove all of 'test', enter insert mode caw # remove the word 'test' and preceding space, enter insert mode vit # visually select all the text within the <p> tags vat # visually select the whole <p> element

16

Amongst the tens of thousands of lines of code, they found only one comment, preceding an unintuitive bitmask operation: /* gok */ Nobody could work out what on earth "gok" could mean, let alone why the previous engineer had chosen to leave that comment when they found no reason to comment any other part of the project. Years later, somebody bumped into this chap at a conference and managed to ask him about the project and the significance of "gok."

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use preceding in a sentence?

When a person's age is next to their name, preceding all actual data, you just know some real _A class bullshit_ is coming your way. And hey, it holds true!

What does preceding mean?

existing or coming before

What part of speech is preceding?

preceding is commonly used as adjective.