lead
Usage
What are other ways to say lead?
To lead is to bring onward in a course, guiding by contact or by going in advance; hence, figuratively, to influence or induce to some course of conduct: to lead a procession; to lead astray. Guide implies continuous presence or agency in showing or indicating a course: to guide a traveler. To conduct is to precede or escort them to a place, sometimes with a degree of ceremony: to conduct a guest to his room. To direct is to give information for guidance, or instructions or orders for a course of procedure: to direct someone to the station.
Example Sentences
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JGB prices may also be weighed by rising crude oil prices that could increase inflationary pressures in Japan and lead to quicker pace of BOJ rate increases.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
In 2020, Zendaya became the youngest lead drama actress winner ever with her first “Euphoria” Emmy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
Fashioning your lead actor as a totem to project your thoughts about apathy and loneliness would be a risky move for anyone other than writer-director Amanda Kramer, who’s made a career out of brazen chicness.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2026
Bruno is the lead author of a new study published in the Journal of Propulsion and Power.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
Next I stopped at Mam’s grave and said a quick “May the angels lead thee into Paradise.”
From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff
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