anterior to
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
The document they produced was, Beard argued, “essentially an economic document based upon the concept that the fundamental private rights of property are anterior to government and morally beyond the reach of popular majorities.”
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2025
The patella, or kneecap, is a triangular bone that lies anterior to the knee joint.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In all vertebrate multiple Hox clusters control the development of the body plan and they too show the sequential anterior to posterior arrangement in the genome.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The book lung looks like a book with many pages and is located just anterior to a spiracle in the ventral abdomen.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
The central part of Dartmoor was a royal forest from a date unknown, but apparently anterior to the Conquest.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
