predecessor in English

noun
1
a person who held a job or office before the current holder.
the new president's foreign policy is very similar to that of his predecessor

Use "predecessor" in a sentence

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

1. Boxcars is the predecessor of Rail Baron

2. The decision was made by my predecessor.

3. She was a remnant from my predecessor, Taylor.

4. Ramsey inherited a battle like this from his predecessor.

5. The car is some 40mm shorter than its predecessor.

6. This computer has a larger memory that its predecessor.

7. I inherited a number of problems from my predecessor.

8. Alan Garcia, Fujimori's predecessor(Sentencedict.com), slipped the net.

9. His predecessor was accorded an equally tumultuous welcome.

10. He faced the same kind of problems as his predecessor.

11. He is seen as more business-minded than his predecessor.

12. And your predecessor wasn't willing to lean on him.

13. David was more politic and successful than his predecessor.

14. The new ambassador is more mature than his predecessor.

15. Our new doctor is much younger than his predecessor.

16. The minivan is a vast improvement over its predecessor.

17. Some scholars tend to identify Merikare's predecessor with Wahkare Khety.

18. The new governor dismissed the staff that served his predecessor.

19. My present car is much better than its predecessor.

20. This treaty was the predecessor to the Tripartite Pact of 1940.

21. 1 Kennedy's predecessor as president was the war hero Dwight Eisenhower.

22. The new Prime Minister is an improvement on his predecessor.

23. He is cast in a different mould from his predecessor.

24. This pessimistic extreme is as foolish as its optimistic predecessor.

25. 15 Our new doctor is much younger than his predecessor.

26. The proposed constitution gives him much wider powers than his predecessor.

27. Kennedy's predecessor as president was the war hero Dwight Eisenhower.

28. 8 My predecessor worked in this job for twelve years.

29. Maduro continued most of the existing economic policies of his predecessor Chávez.

30. The new president reversed many of the policies of his predecessor.

31. The new BMW has a more powerful engine than its predecessor.

32. Unlike his predecessor, Bischoff was an extremely competent and dynamic bureaucrat.

33. In her speech, she paid a glowing tribute to her predecessor.

34. Both his predecessor and successor was Rashid Karami as prime minister.

35. Modern Aioli, then, differs from its traditional predecessor in a number of ways

36. Our new supervisor is clever in matters in which his predecessor was maladroit.

37. Link to predecessor/successor in the event of an absorption/break-up

38. To satisfy these invariants, a predecessor field is maintained for each node.

39. The new leader wants to escape from the shadow of his predecessor.

40. The modern nuclear family is a more specialized unit than its predecessor.

41. It was formed following the restructuring of its predecessor, BBC Enterprises, in 1995.

42. Helicoprion was not a Buzzsaw predecessor to great white or tiger sharks

43. Anticlerical Sentence Examples General Plaza continued the Anticlerical policy of his predecessor

44. UNHCR's predecessor, the International Refugee Organization ( IRO ) helped one million Europeans to resettle overseas.

45. The new president spent the first year undoing the work of his predecessor.

46. He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor, Sukarno.

47. Former, previous, predecessor, prior, past, foregone, forehand, forerunner, late, precedent, preceding, antecedent, Antecedental, antecessor

48. To succeed me as alcalde of this district, I am naming my illustrious predecessor

49. (6) The original predecessor of HFF, the State Housing Agency, was established in 1980.

50. The predecessor to the euro, the European Currency Unit (ECU), had the code XEU.