Example sentences for: predates

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

  • But the teen culture itself--Archie and Jughead, bobby-soxer mania for Frank Sinatra, etc.--quite obviously predates the teen years of the very oldest baby boomers, who didn't enter those golden years--15, 16--until the early 1960s.

  • Specifically, the government process predates the journalistic exposé--and in fact is its major source.

  • Although some very good work predates it, you might say that the show symbolically begins with his Erased de Kooning Drawing of 1953.

  • Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.

  • It looked like a pale and wan version of Microsoft Windows--with tiny, little crude buttons--even though it predates Windows.


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