predates in English

verb
1
exist or occur at a date earlier than (something).
this letter predates her illness
2
(of an animal) act as a predator of; catch and eat (prey).
A further 13 % were predated or scavenged during the shooting season (some of which may have been shot but not picked up).

Use "predates" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "predates" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "predates", or refer to the context using the word "predates" in the English Dictionary.

1. Predates the Great Pyramids.

2. The Cornet, in its earliest form, predates recorded history

3. The kingdom predates other African cultures by over 000 years.

4. The steel industry's history in Portland predates World War II.

5. Nuclear nervousness predates Chernobyl; but what happened there greatly strengthened it.

6. Early Colonial Money predates Federally issued Coinage and is often overlooked segment of numismatics

7. Telnet, however, predates TCP/IP and was originally run over Network Control Program (NCP) protocols.

8. Synonyms for Backdates include dates, predates, signs, stamps, validates, antedates, precedes, anticipates, foregoes and antecedes

9. Your inability to successfully woo Penny long predates your acquisition of the time machine.

10. Synonyms for Antedates include precedes, predates, anticipates, foregoes, antecedes, goes before, preexists, accelerates, anachronizes and backdates

11. Synonyms for Antecedes include foregoes, antedates, precedes, predates, preexists, foreruns, goes before, comes before, anticipates and foreshadows

12. To Blowtorch, the use of fire in warfare is a science that predates the bow and arrow

13. Chicken Adobo is a classic dish in the cuisine of the Philippines, one that predates any external influence

14. What Is the History? Auricular acupuncture has been used for many centuries and probably predates conventional needle acupuncture

15. The sulphides have been deformed in the retrograde schist zones and the ore therefore predates this event.

16. Animation, the art of making inanimate objects appear to move.Animation is an artistic impulse that long predates the movies

17. The Baobab is a prehistoric species which predates both mankind and the splitting of the continents over 200 million years ago.

18. In nearby Kadıköy (ancient Chalcedon), a large port settlement dating from the Phoenicians (which predates the Megaran settlement) has been discovered.

19. Covid-19 Accelerates three critical trends in higher education, each of which predates the pandemic, and each of which demands a new policy approach

20. The concept of sending electronic text messages between parties in a way analogous to mailing letters or memos predates the creation of the Internet.

21. Antichronism (illustration to 4.390) Selden’s use of ‘Antichronism’ makes for a particularly interesting comparison with the roughly comparable ‘anachronism’, which it predates.

22. The earliest Ascomycete fossil ascomata and spores are controversial because their age of deposition significantly predates molecular estimates of their time of origin

23. Basketry was one of Mesoamerica’s oldest crafts, important since the early hunting-gathering period and predates both the manipulation of fire and the creation of pottery

24. Aeolian dune sand from the Kittigazuit Formation near Cliff Point, on the southern shore of Liverpool Bay, predates till deposited during the Toker Point Stade.

25. The relationship between pollination and thermogenesis probably predates the origin of Angiosperms, because thermogenesis is known to occur in living cycads, a group that first appears in the Paleozoic

26. The Acheulian Goddess predates Willendorf by an amazing quarter-million years, and may be as old as 800,000 years! It is remarkable to note the similarities between the Willendorf and the far older Acheulian

27. This map predates the rather extensive Annexations made by the City of Memphis in the 1960s, as well as any significant expansions of the suburban jurisdictions that were also to occur in the following decades

28. Going out and reading the “Green Scriptures,” Contemplatively attending to the natural creation that predates all of the world’s written scriptures by 13 billion years, is a spiritual practice that is as old as Adam and Eve

29. A common quip on Twitter that predates "OK, Boomer" is "silence, Boomer" — an image often used as a reply for when someone has tweeted something perceived to be out-of-touch.

30. Her existence predates all memory—even older than the titans, according to some accounts.[2] When a soul is brought before the Arbiter, all of its contents—deeds, misdeeds, thoughts, accomplishments, and failures—are laid bare, absorbed, and …

31. First described in 1754 (which actually predates the description of its parent species Andalusite by 44 years!) by a Spanish author, Franciscan priest and paleontologist José Torrubia, and published in his famous book, "Aparato para la Historia Natural Española", (in

32. A Bag (also known regionally as a sack) is a common tool in the form of a non-rigid container.The use of Bags predates recorded history, with the earliest Bags being no more than lengths of animal skin, cotton, or woven plant fibers, folded up at the edges and secured in that shape with strings of the same material.