Examples of 'predate' in a sentence
Meaning of "predate"
predate (verb): To exist or occur before something else; to prey on; to hunt, kill, or eat other animals
Show more definitions
- To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
- To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
- A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.
- To prey upon something.
How to use "predate" in a sentence
Basic
Advanced
predate
This place must predate interior decorating.
I found injuries that even predate that.
This will predate our mission together.
The origins of cheese probably predate history.
He will predate it for a couple hundred bucks.
At least two works predate this speech.
They predate the revelations about genocide.
This could well predate our decision.
They predate the age of dinosaurs by millions of years.
And they all predate his capture.
There were design features that predate.
They appear to predate the use of artillery.
Maybe we should have a little predate.
The books predate all of it by a few years.
Cannabis is a plant whose genetics predate civilisation.
See also
Plants predate the human race.
Moral rights do not predate the work.
They predate our oldest culture.
Nålbinding is believed to predate knitting and crochet.
There were design features in that robot that predate.
His looping images predate even motion pictures.
They predate any conception that we have of spacecraft or aircraft.
Poetry as an art form may predate literacy.
It may predate the new house.
Though the time of deaths predate our victim.
These issues predate his appointment as prime minister.
One that may well predate our own.
They predate both sides.
It is a reminder of traditions that predate our age of enlightenment.
All these predate even the earliest egyptian dynasties.
Several outbuildings also predate the main house.
It does predate all known religions.
These magnificent creatures predate dinosaurs.
Most of them predate the origin of modern humans.
It is possible that the tunnel predate the tower.
The symbols predate recorded history.
Predate computers by thousands of years.
Things that predate all reality.
It is surrounded by mature oak trees that predate the theater.
It may predate the lore.
A couple of the guys predate me.
Parents do not predate the fry when they are released.
The origins of the phrase predate steel bars.
That predate the fermentation of malt and fine hops.
Flash games predate them all.
Typography based on expert principles that predate the web.
These ruins seem to predate any modern civilization.
But the crisis also revealed structural challenges that predate it.
Well art seems to predate and predict reality.
I predate all of that.
