AHEAD in a Sentence

Learn AHEAD from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
283 example sentences for AHEAD, such as:
1. They had an awesome task ahead.
2. Hours of feverish activity lay ahead.
3. He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
4. The dream was always running ahead of me.
5. You go ahead and tell him that I'm coming.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of AHEAD
ahead
 ad.  at or in the front
 ad.  toward the future; forward in time
Classic Sentence: (159 in 11 pages)
1  She walked out of the kitchen ahead of them and pausing in the hall raised the lamp at arm's-length, as if to light them up the stairs.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  The next moment they sank to her flushed cheeks and she began to mount the stairs ahead of Zeena.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  As he passed into their gloom he saw an indistinct outline just ahead of him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
4  Again the outline hastily disunited and the Varnum gate slammed on one half while the other hurried on ahead of him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  "I'll have to hurry up to do it," Ethan mused, as the sleigh dropped down ahead of him over the dip of the school-house hill.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
6  A cutter, mounting the road from the village, passed them by in a joyous flutter of bells, and they straightened themselves and looked ahead with rigid faces.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
7  Gerald, riding ahead, pulled up his horse and signed to Toby to stop the carriage where the two roads met.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  And there was still a long struggle ahead, which meant more dead, more wounded, more widows and orphans.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  When regimental officers, understanding the situation, saw a hard fight ahead, they wrote these men, telling them to rejoin their companies and no questions would be asked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
10  They reached the little town of Calhoun, six miles below Resaca, ahead of the Yankees, entrenched and were again ready for the attack when the Yankees came up.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
11  After all, Tara lay just ahead, and after the next quarter of a mile, the horse could drop in the shafts if he liked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
12  She must not let them come to life now; there was all the rest of her life ahead of her in which they could ache.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  After the fright Jonas Wilkerson had given her, she would never rest easy until she and Frank had some money ahead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  Plague take him, she thought, he's always one jump ahead of me.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
15  Peter sucked in his breath and his wrinkled brow showed deep furrows but he kept his eyes straight ahead.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence: (124 in 9 pages)
1  Hours of feverish activity lay ahead.
2  Unanimous agreement must be reached for this plan to go ahead.
3  An awesome challenge/task lies ahead of them.
4  One runner forged ahead of the others and won the.
5  Francisco was staring ahead into the darkness.
6  It is unclear whether the meeting will go ahead as planned.
7  The ship forged ahead under a favourable wind.
8  We'll have a fresh start for the year ahead.
9  Abruptly the group ahead of us came to a standstill.
10  You go ahead and tell him that I'm coming.
11  He forged ahead, panting and breathless.
12  Look straight ahead and you'll see the post office.
13  The dream was always running ahead of me.
14  They had an awesome task ahead.
15  Ease down; there's a sharp bend ahead.