Example sentences for: predecessors

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

  • Nineteen journals were listed in PubMed under the MeSH heading "education, medical" [ 13 ] . Five of these journals were predecessors of some of the remaining 14 journals, e.g. the British Journal of Medical Education as the predecessor of Medical Education.

  • Another interesting word that American cowhands have taken from their Mexican predecessors, along with the thing itself, is chaps, typically truncated from the Mexican chaparreras, the word for protective leather leggings worn mainly by cowboys on horseback in thorny brush.

  • It is intended to replace its predecessors, not supplement them.

  • Pokémon outclasses its predecessors in every way.

  • Unable or unwilling to court the old vassal Malay States or the orang laut pirates to patrol the seas, the new rulers forfeited their predecessors’ commercial monopoly in the Melaka Straits and, with it, command of the Moluccas spice trade.


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