Example sentences for: antecedents

How can you use “antecedents” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • That quotation itself calls attention to apocalyptic antecedents in the Bible, where the end of the days or the last days , meaning "the end of the world," is often much on people's minds.

  • Surviving ESTs were then used to search the nr database to identify parental cDNA or mRNA matches, which assembled 623 non-overlapping ESTs into 21 gene or pseudogene antecedents.

  • The elegant simplicity of the Parliament building, graceful façade of the University, and almost ‘Rococo-esque’ decoration on the Academy all hark back to ancient antecedents.

  • Savage attributes such Svengalian omnipotence to Malcolm McLaren, and focuses so heavily on McLaren's intellectual antecedents, from structuralism to the Situationist International, that you could easily forget there was any band there at all.)

  • As for my antecedents, I must confess that I have never heard of Mary Killen, "Eppie," or Jeffrey Zaslow.


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