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Predecessor
"Predecessor" in a Sentence (14 examples)
We like the present headmaster better than his predecessor.
His background parallels that of his predecessor.
His humble background parallels that of his predecessor.
He defies the present government which is no less oppressive than its predecessor.
Lojban and its predecessor Loglan are mutually unintelligible.
While I was walking down the street as an ordinary pedestrian, I saw my predecessor in a limousine.
This candidate is significantly better compared to his predecessor.
The new model was larger, faster and more refined than its predecessor.
The Latin language has always been held in very high esteem by the Catholic Church and by the Roman Pontiffs. They have assiduously encouraged the knowledge and dissemination of Latin, adopting it as the Church’s language, capable of passing on the Gospel message throughout the world. This is authoritatively stated by the Apostolic Constitution Veterum Sapientia of my Predecessor, Blessed John XXIII.
Blame your predecessor.
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I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
"The Northern Heights at last," you say to yourself, hastily closing the carriage window because the Yorkshire coal used by the Eastern Region and its predecessors makes their tunnels more sulphurous than any we know.
The steam engine was the predecessor of diesel and electric locomotives.
No. 6959 is painted in the standard wartime black livery and, like its immediate predecessors, does not carry a nameplate, but the words "Hall Class" have been painted on the middle coupled-wheel splasher.
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