Example Sentences
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The Taliban did not issue a formal statement on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda terrorist attacks that preluded them being driven from power 20 years earlier.
From Washington Post • Sep. 11, 2021
Similar marches have since preluded Pride events across the country.
From Washington Times • Jun. 6, 2019
Seventy years later, it was lost to the modern urges that preluded the Seattle Century 21 World’s Fair.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2018
Their Majesties' present Afric tour was preluded when they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her glance at my hand preluded a longer glance at my face.
From Man and Maid by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
