Example sentences for: presided

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

  • The first literary salon in history was presided over by Aspasia, Pericles’ mistress, a remarkable woman of intelligence and spirit.

  • The LAT mentions quite clearly, and the WP somewhat obliquely, that then-President Bush also presided over a waiver of satellite technology to China.

  • In 1492 the royal pair presided over the final conquest over the Moors and discovery of the New World, including the great wealth that feat brought to Spain.

  • The Minoans were ruled by a priest-king who presided over both religious and economic affairs.

  • Greene, who fled Nazi Germany with his parents in 1939, helped draft the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and presided over the 1981 breakup of AT&T.


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