"precede" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Although initial reports indicated that gunfire had preceded the attack, no shots were fired during the incident.
- He preceded the initial attack with a fifty-minute artillery bombardment, his troops crossing the start lines at 06:00.
- Canaris had warned that the Allies would broadcast hundreds of messages to the underground in the months preceding the attack.
- No artillery barrage preceded the attack to forewarn the enemy.
- Soon we got to tender glances, hand pressures, all the little gallantries which precede the final attack.
- Another victim would be named, with useless deaths preceding the attack upon him.
- There were no warnings preceding the attack.
- Will they resist the heavy shelling preceding the attack?
- Sergeant Higgins said it was not clear what had preceded the attack.
- It required a minute or two before he could collect his wits and recall the events immediately preceding the attack.
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