Sample sentences for PREDECESSOR

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one who precedes another in time — such as the previous mayor relative to the current mayor

Wear this more wisely than did your predecessor.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Marked

I will endeavor to do a better job than my predecessor.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die
This — along with the untimely arrival of my charming predecessor — was going to make my job a little more difficult.
James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
At length, just before my departure, he told me he had, on better consideration, concluded not to mix his accounts with those of his predecessors.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
He thought he was privileged, but we were only using him to trap his predecessor, unearthed by our man in Special Branch.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
But most of all, I have learned here from this river and from my predecessor, the ferryman Vasudeva.
Hermann Hesse -- Siddhartha
Other transports come bringing men to deal with their predecessors.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist
Like all my spiritual predecessors.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
See there, Rider Eragon, where my predecessors sit upon their graven thrones.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
He was in constant touch with his future predecessor and received long weekly letters of guidance from him.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
I'm a theologian and my predecessor, Luther, took the side of the princes and plutocrats against the peasants.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
He had accepted his predecessor's count and now the count was short — and the other officer was not merely gone, he was dead.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
_" "Thy predecessor the famous Judas Iscariot hanged himself," Pilar said.
Ernest Hemingway -- For Whom the Bell Tolls
Heaven can I lock and unlock, as thou knowest; for two are the keys that my predecessor held not dear.'
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
Will you deign to bestow your blessing upon Orik, Thrifk's son, and to crown him in the tradition of his predecessors?
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
In place of the rich robes of his predecessors, he wore a shapeless tunic of undyed wool that fell down to his ankles.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
"Weren't some of the popes—of course, not our present man, or his predecessor, but some of the old popes—not exactly.... you know.... up to the knocker?"
James Joyce -- Dubliners
When Star became Empress she had barely started the second half of her training, having had imprinted in her only seven of her predecessors.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
As he confided to Abigail, he wanted few if any of the "court" trappings of his predecessor.
David McCullough -- John Adams
The failures of your predecessors will guide you.
Rick Riordan -- The Mark of Athena

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