How To Use Predate In A Sentence

Continuing, he charged the general with inciting his employés to depredate on the fences and fields. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886
It predates the peaceful non-violence of Martin Luther King.
The entire area has been depredated in the war.
Of course, she had it easy: Her name change predated the social media wave, and she made the switch before accumulating nearly 70,000 followers across Twitter and Facebook. Forbes.com: News
As a result, the species that most frequently depredate nests vary among studies.

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You can use "preyed on", although it has the potential to end a sentence with a preposition, so I prefer "depredated" as an alternate to "predated" meaning eaten. This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
First, the rate at which eggs were depredated was analyzed with survival (or failure time) analysis.
The cultural landscape predates this, the only ‘wilderness’ of its kind in Portugal, which was created by the Order of Discalced Carrnelites between 1628 and 1630.
The number of eggs depredated by ghost crabs was estimated by counting those eggs that had a small circular section of the eggshell removed.
It is thought only the dugout canoe predates the coracle as a means of water travel.
The growth of acquisitive crime predated the spread of heroin use, but eventually these trends became interconnected and fueled each other.
The term "thread pool" predates the Java platform, and is probably an artifact from a less object-oriented approach.
Some of the things that John was talking about it, it seem like improvements for the second half of the fiscal year, this is a very seasonal business and I'm wondering has the inventory ship already sailed and the marketing plans already kind of predated John and his improvements, whatever he was talking about there. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
Baked contacts with host rocks indicate that metamorphism associated with intrusion predates shearing.
Finding little to eat in the bleak, snow-drifted woods, it soon began to depredate on the moose, and killed two or three, generally by lying in wait and dashing out on them as they passed near its lurking-place. Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches
These cave paintings predate any others which are known.
Several of his late ebauches, or sketches, predate in their impetuous composition and stark colour the work of the Fauve painters.
Another group of masks called chilolos, the word for mask in Mixtec, also predates Christianity. The Masks Of Mexico (Part 2)
Otherwise we create what we have now or a situation where there are exchanges but not with any effort ahead of time to create some kind of formalized and agreed upon trust that predates the money system. A New Administration, Tired Old Policies
The kingdom predates other African cultures by over 3,000 years.
The transport of land armies by sea and their support ashore by naval forces actually predate warfare at sea.
Fierce land disputes between their tribes far predate the 19 th-century creation of the Navajo and Hopi reservations, and continue to this day.
Members of all vertebrate classes predate eggs and hatchlings.
Several, including massicot or giallolino, purple of Cassius reference, and Drebbel's red, predated the epoch. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
The technique gives the demographer something concrete to work with, for written records on men are much more readily available than those on women; but it certainly requires strenuous qualification if used in the Newfoundland context, for it mutes the matrilineal bridges and matrilocal/uxorilocal residence patterns that often predated patrilineal-patrilocal patterns in early settlement. Gutenber-e Help Page
The Island's Norse settlement was predated by the Celts, evidence for which comes in the form of archaeological remains of roundhouses and hill forts.
Useful insects include silkworms and ladybirds that predate upon aphids.
Tripoli; and as Tunisian corsairs had never depredated upon American commerce, the Mediterranean sea was now opened to the mercantile marine of the United States. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.
The wider musical climate was defined by the gaudiness of psychedelia, but the music they put to tape tapped somehow into an America that predated rock by at least a century.
Stage 2 includes deposition of the latest Neoproterozoic Lake Maurice and Ungoolya Groups, which predate and span the initial stages of the Petermann Orogeny.
Each year, many groups failed to produce offspring or the offspring were depredated prior to sampling.
This astonished me, because I had never before seen any indication that the term черносотенцы, chernosotentsy, in Russian predated the twentieth century. Languagehat.com: BLACK HUNDREDS.
In my book, I refer to my mother as General Patton in pedal pushers, and frequently paint her as a shrieking harridan for whom water in the kitchen sink or unraked shag carpeting could produce bouts of rage: earsplitting, fist-shaking, God-summoning rage that fortunately predated the presence of guns in the suburban household. Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
It also follows that there are differences in age between grains, which is consistent with the impression of resorption given by the grain morphology: possibly all grains predate the final tuff volcanism.
James Packer's essay on hermeneutics predates Anthony Thiselton's efforts to increase hermeneutical awareness among evangelicals.
It is also historical materialism, which far predated postmodernism in understanding that human affairs were matters of cutting, pasting, and recombining.
While there were four-wheel-drive vehicles that predated the military Jeep, they were mostly highly specialized trucks and pickups.
Winter, using clay eggs in artificial nests, inferred that midsized predators do not depredate nests farther than 60 metres from edges in tall-grass prairie.
He does a great job on my shoes, and this is one of those shops that predates continental drift so it's a well-worn, lived-in place that smells great and is a treat to walk into.
His newspaper contributions predated his novels by over two decades, as he looked to supplement his income as a civil servant.
Hence we have the Law of Similars which is very ancient and predates the formulation of Homoeopathy in the eighteenth century.
If eggs hatched and were then depredated within three days, failure may have been incorrectly assigned to the incubation stage.
One exception to these observations is the Kaiapo Fault, a normal structure that predates the 26.5 ka eruption and has experienced two historic seismogenic ruptures.
(1969:20) Perkins' research predates the current debate about "involution" in the field of Chinese economic history; but his estimates (and those of Bozhong Li) set the parameters for much of that debate. China's agricultural history
Thousands of these historic remnants litter national forests and wilderness areas, relics of homesteads or mining claims that predate the protected entity.
In my book, I refer to my mother as General Patton in pedal pushers, and frequently paint her as a shrieking harridan for whom water in the kitchen sink or unraked shag carpeting could produce bouts of rage: earsplitting, fist-shaking, God-summoning rage that fortunately predated the presence of guns in the suburban household. Eric Poole: She has Every Right to Kill Me
Most polymorphism thus appears to predate the split of these closely related genera.
Just before the harvest season, it became palpable that this field, then waving with wheat, was depredated upon to a wasteful extent by some unknown subjects of the animal kingdom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
This coin predates the Qing Dynasty.
This cover, from 1962, predated the now traditional bubble covers, but remains a classic example of British self-deprecation.
Most proponents of the insulation theory agree that the evolution of homoiothermy predated the evolution of avian flight and that the origin of avian flight was from an elevated site [i.e., tree-down] rather than from the ground-up.
By degrees the dwellings became filled with a loose and lawless population; contrabandistas, who availed themselves of its independent jurisdiction to carry on a wide and daring course of smuggling, and thieves and rogues of all sorts, who made this their place of refuge whence they might depredate upon Granada and its vicinity. The Alhambra
Snow's deduction that cholera was a waterborne disease that could be spread from person to person was remarkable in that it ran counter to this theory and predated the discovery of microbes by 30 years.
On Triangle Island, bald eagles are known to depredate tufted puffins.
Since it was thought thus that novel disseisin predated mort d'ancestor, novel disseisin appeared as a preliminary undermining of feudal power by protecting knightly possession of their property rights, preparatory to the introduction of mort d'ancestor and the possessory protection of inheritance rights. Amanda is on Men’s Rights Radio Today!
Its fame and wealth predated the 1855 classification of Bordeaux wines, but it was placed alongside the other first class growths in that classification.
It has been reported that martens can depredate up to 100% of the local population of pied flycatchers breeding in nest-boxes in Latvia.
Newroz predates apparence of persians by millinea; it is celebrated by the Kurds, the Afghans, the Tajicks and the Persians. Obama, Peres and Colbert on the Persian New Year - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
By degrees the dwellings became filled up with a loose and lawless population; contrabandistas, who availed themselves of its independent jurisdiction to carry on a wide and daring course of smuggling, and thieves and rogues of all sorts, who made this their place of refuge from whence they might depredate upon Granada and its vicinity. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 549 (Supplementary number)
I agree that any genetic differences in aptitude probably predated selective breeding by slave owners. Think Progress » New basketball league open to whites only, to get away from the ‘street-ball’ played by ‘people of color.’
Holland plays both piano and guitar in a style that predates electricity, while her small band falls naturally into the loose collective swing of pre-bop jazzers.
These phases predate the main foliation, a well-differentiated crenulation cleavage that wraps around the porphyroblasts of garnet and staurolite.
If David Mason is correct that there was a subsequent refortification which predated the medieval wall, this is consistent with a long period of disrepair during the early medieval period, followed by a refortification either when the Danes briefly took the city in 894 or when “Chester was rebuilt” in 907. Chester in the seventh century: the fortress defences
BEILENSON: What we're doing, actually, we kind of predated what the CDC is now recommending. CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2004
The beautiful parish church of St Mary, dating from the 12 th century, predates the minster and is famous for a carving of a rabbit which is said to have inspired Lewis Carroll to create the March Hare in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Of course hungry and half-starved squirrels will depredate, -- on birds 'nests, fruit and gardens. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
Since husbandry et cetera influences would predate and influence both eugenics and evolutionary biology as a common ancestor .-, the relationship is both clearly there and clearly confusable. Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist - The Panda's Thumb
While no definitive analysis is possible, all the re-simulated persons to date exhibit certain common characteristics: they are all based on _well-documented historical persons_, their memories show suspicious gaps [see: _smoke and mirrors_], and they are ignorant of or predate the _singularity_ [see: _Turing Oracle, Vinge Catastrophe_]. Asimov's Science Fiction
Of course poverty among older people predates retirement and this group have dominated the landscape of poverty since it was first described systematically.
Eggs and hatchlings are predated by members of every class of vertebrates and numerous invertebrates.
Furthermore, the textural evidence implies that the main hydrous minerals in this rock, staurolite and biotite, largely predate garnet growth.
I don't care for depredated myself, as you can usually avoid the end-of-sentence preposition with "preyed on. This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
This is not strictly true since the theory of epicycles certainly predates Apollonius.
The plot was hardly nabbed from the Matrix since The Mutant Chronicles predates The Matrix by a substantial number of years. Must Watch: Thomas Jane's Mutant Chronicles Teaser Trailer « FirstShowing.net
James Packer's essay on hermeneutics predates Anthony Thiselton's efforts to increase hermeneutical awareness among evangelicals.
Fairbanks predates Jackie Chan in his insistence on performing dangerous stunts himself, seen here as he fearlessly bounds up and down the ship's rigging.
Do southern flying squirrels frequently depredate songbird nests in other areas?
In 1958, he became president of Sar-A-Lee Inc., a Cleveland-based salad-dressing manufacturer whose name predated the baking titan. He and His Wife Wrote the Pricing Bible
Therefore, when the pope dies, of course, to avoid that anybody gets a hold of that ring and starts issuing documents in his name predated perhaps, they destroy the ring. CNN Transcript Apr 24, 2005
A federal permit is not required to kill a bird when it depredates a crop
Queneau's Petite Cosmogonie portative, for example, is treated as an example of an Oulipian text although it predates the Oulipo, because it is written in alexandrines.
Megalithic temples that predate the Egyptian pyramids, Bronze Age archaeological sites, Phoenician inscriptions, and Roman catacombs all contribute to a sense of nationhood.
These mammals predate certain eggs
The first woman rabbi predated the entry of women into the priesthood by seventeen years and after a similar struggle for recognition.
My dictionary gives the meaning of "depredate" as "to plunder or lay waste to", something Vikings would do, but not snails. This just in: authors prey on careless copy editor!
But France, once our ally, has dared to insult us! she has violated her obligations; she has depredated our commerce -- she has abused our government, and riveted the chains of bondage on our unhappy fellow citizens! The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
Founded in 1904 during the Russo-Japanese War by a group of business elites led by a Shanghai tea merchant, it predates even the Chinese Communist Party.
It is quite possible, even likely, that some studies misclassify fates of nests that are depredated late in the nestling stage, leading to overestimates of nesting success.
Her revisionist agenda is to demonstrate that the shift of the center of the art market from Paris to New York predates World War II by one war.
Foreign journalists taken on a government-sponsored tour of Al-Zawiya, to the west of Tripoli—which last week witnessed bloody clashes between opposition and pro-Gadhafi security forces—entered the center of town to see the tricolored flag that predated Col. Oil Flows as Rebels Gain
Even China will be depredated by this, losing the main market on which their economic power is based. Stephen Herrington: Trade Is An Issue Americans Understand; Why Doesn't Geithner?
These cave paintings predate any others which are known.
Mail: mbox iCal: iCal format (predated iCal) iPhoto: stored as jpg, in directories Scripting News for 5/3/2006 « Scripting News Annex
The "intergovernmental" cabal in the European Union are flexing their muscles, introducing elements which were in the constitution – and some which predated it – but in many ways freezing out the Commission and keeping the power within the ambit of the European Council and participating member state leaders. Democracy or stability?
It was predated by two years with the 1860 publication of "The Trail of the Serpent," by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; it uses the same "casebook" formula replicated afterward by Charles Felix, as did another 1860 detective novel, "The Woman in White," by Wilkie Collins. NYT > Home Page
Qohelet's epistemology is of a sort that he would never take texts like those in 1 Enoch (which predate him) and Dan 12 (which postdates him, according to the hypothesis I follow) as demonstrative of anything. The Inerrancy of Ecclesiastes 9:2-6
It may predate larger animals as well as small mammals, with records of prey as large as juvenile foxes and roe deer.
Because egg predation is high during laying, many eggs may have been depredated before we found them, especially the first and second eggs of a clutch.
She practices yoga, keeps a macrobiotic diet, and is a devoted student of Kabbalah, a mystical form of Judaism, which predates organized religion.
Baked contacts with host rocks indicate that metamorphism associated with intrusion predates shearing.
By using trilobite examples they push cladistic biogeography beyond the typical scope because the focus is a marine taxon whose evolutionary history predates the fragmentation of Pangea.
The main thing I had going for me was almost instant acceptance by other women as one of them that actually predated my transition.
It has also been estimated that feral dogs predate nearly 70 per cent of the eggs and hatchlings of the sea turtles in these islands.
He predates the inexorable rise of the gossip glossies. Times, Sunday Times
Marma therapy predates similar practices like acupuncture, acupressure, reiki and chiropractic.
There is a vast collection of such texts, some of which predate Paul, that scholars refer to loosely as the Pseudepigrapha see James H. Charles-worth, The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, 2 vols. The Jesus Dynasty
It is quite possible, even likely, that some studies misclassify fates of nests that are depredated late in the nestling stage, leading to overestimates of nesting success.
The atlatl is an ancient throwing weapon that predates bows and arrows. The Random World of Awesome
Stoneman, having crossed the rivers higher up, made a raid in the direction of Richmond which accomplished nothing of consequence, but merely frightened and depredated upon the unarmed country people. Lieutenant General Jubal Anderson Early C.S.A. : autobiographical sketch and narrative of the War between the States,
However, the leading exponents of the open source ethic predate these events by more than a decade.
It's been under lease to the mining giant since the late 1960s, and the traditional owners receive royalties, even though the lease predates the Land Rights Act.
Firstly, the Scriptures affirm that Christ's redemptive work on earth was the culmination of God's planning and foreordination - which in its inception predated the foundation of the world.
The kingdom predates other African cultures by over 3,000 years.
If one's actions are honest, one does not need the predated confidence of others. Ayn Rand
In those broods that were not depredated, nestling survival was high.
Another 1970s strategy of empowerment was to turn to the misty past and recast prehistory in a hopeful light: perhaps a Neolithic matriarchy predated the Iron Age patriarchy.
The technique gives the demographer something concrete to work with, for written records on men are much more readily available than those on women; but it certainly requires strenuous qualification if used in the Newfoundland context, for it mutes the matrilineal bridges and matrilocal/uxorilocal residence patterns that often predated patrilineal-patrilocal patterns in early settlement. Gutenber-e Help Page
Whatever concern may have been felt by either of the belligerent powers lest private armed cruisers or other vessels in the service of one might be fitted out in the ports of this country to depredate on the property of the other, all such fears have proved to be utterly groundless. State of the Union Address (1790-2001)
The men themselves are strong, able-bodied workers, and I shall miss them; but once having begun to depredate upon me, nothing will stop them. A Woman Rice Planter
It is a thing worthy of complaint when public charities, designed for the relief of the poor, are embezzled and depredated by the rich, and turned to the support of luxury and pride. From London to Land's End
Its importance as a meeting place and a sustainer of life predates our Celtic ancestors.
Many types of predators depredate bird nests and thus potentially influence the spatial distribution of their prey.
1994 Nature Conservancy May-June 18/2 People, who scare turtles, also bring litter, which..also brings more raccoons to predate nests. Mind your words ...
Paintings of horses - and other wild animals of ice age Europe such as lions and mammoths - long predate human portraiture.
Accordingly some aspects of domestic rectitude predated the cult of domesticity.
The capacity for uptake by the fetal membranes may well be a primitive sauropsid feature that long predates the evolution of viviparity.
So it seemed wise, even prudent, to seek counsel from the animal kingdom; these multifarious species, many of which predate humankind and have survived cataclysms far worse than our present imaginings.
The technique gives the demographer something concrete to work with, for written records on men are much more readily available than those on women; but it certainly requires strenuous qualification if used in the Newfoundland context, for it mutes the matrilineal bridges and matrilocal/uxorilocal residence patterns that often predated patrilineal-patrilocal patterns in early settlement. Gutenber-e Help Page
At any rate, this argument is only partially true since the republic set up by the Iroquois confederacy predates Canadian confederation.
Re-Animator is such a fierce, energetic, high-flying concoction that every aspect of it feels like a well-tuned joke - from its timeless, TV-tinged university setting to the iconic acting to the balls-out comic gore, which predated The Perfect Crime has this nasty Spaniard, in a crowd of nasty Spaniards, going more and more glitzily commercial. GreenCine Daily
The pair chose to dwell mostly in a musical milieu which would have predated either of their births, with just a few excursions into the present for their own compositions, which were primarily exercises in that same style.
The brewery may be the oldest large-scale facility of its kind ever found in the Andes and predates the Inca Empire by at least four centuries, he said.
These cave paintings predate any others which are known.
In addition to these extraordinary respiratory adaptations, the crucian carp is the only vertebrate known to be able to change its body morphology to avoid being predated – a mechanism induced by alarm substances sent out by fellow crucian carp when they are in the process of being eaten. Evolution versus "Intelligent Design" - The Panda's Thumb
Though it is not clear what lies at the root of Kennedy's anger, it long predates his involvement in Bristol; indeed his animus against the medical profession was already evident in his Reith Lectures more than 20 years earlier.
A date this early, at first blush, appears preposterous, for it suggests a common ancestor of land plants that predates land on our planet.
These findings, demonstrating that early South American prehistory predates Clovis culture, have led to the decline of the Clovis paradigm.

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