How to Use predate in a Sentence

predate

verb

• In fact, skis predate the wheel.
  — Evan Bush, NBC news, 15 Feb. 2026
• The show doesn’t say, nor is it known if this idea predates the show.
  — Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Apr. 2026
• These plays long predate us and long outlast us.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
• And her love of clothes predated her fame.
  — Oscar Holland, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2025
• The two large navel orange trees in her backyard predate her.
  — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Mar. 2026
• So that predates trees on planet Earth.
  — Chris Livesay, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
• The team’s core is still formed of players who predate Emery.
  — Chris Waugh, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2026
• The backyard is the closer, built around an oak tree that predates the house.
  — David Caraccio, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2026
• One was for overgrown weeds that predated his tenure by two months.
  — Brian Eason, ajc, 16 Feb. 2023
• Their grief isn’t due only to the walkouts but also predates it.
  — Maria Prudente, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• But her career in food long predates the popular binge watch.
  — Miranda Crowell, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Dec. 2023
• This fossil predates that entire era by tens of millions of years.
  — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2026
• Even though her charges predate the birth of her first child, they have been used against her in her custody disputes.
  — Brittany Wallman, Sun Sentinel, 4 Dec. 2022
• Most agreements that predate the agentic era simply do not.
  — Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
• DeMott’s name change predates any run for office.
  — Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
• Still, his career, like those of so many other artists who predated rock ‘n’ roll, took a dip.
  — Claudia Luther, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2023
• Your work in this vein predates the recent surge in this kind of writing and reporting.
  — Jasmine Liu, The New Republic, 21 Apr. 2023
• Lin said that had nothing to do with her complaints, which long predated the new clinic.
  — Katie Thomas, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
• Yeah, and one other key point is that this all predated the current longevity craze.
  — Torie Bosch, STAT, 16 May 2026
• The brownstone was built for this, a product of a culture that predates the nursing home.
  — Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 2 Oct. 2025
• Both sets of rules predate the case Circle has now created.
  — Zennon Kapron, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• Alas, the problem long predates AI and runs much deeper.
  — Austin Sarat, Fortune, 23 June 2026
• But to be fair, it's based on a comic that predates the Demi Moore movie.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 15 Jan. 2026
• The sign predated the war by about a year, but now its message referred to the war, as did its language.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
• They were not used to being predated on by another species.
  — Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
• That predates the emergence of these tiny drone planes that Iran and Ukraine are using.
  — CNN Money, 3 May 2026
• But the offensive struggles predate the trip.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 18 Oct. 2025
• Many elite colleges have deep roots, predating the nation itself.
  — Leadership Brainery, Forbes.com, 4 Aug. 2025
• And somehow their relationship predates their time in the league.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
• The Idea In a sense, the idea of Brasília predates Brazil itself.
  — Sophia La Banca, JSTOR Daily, 11 Mar. 2026