Sentence examples of "devant" in French with translation "ahead"

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Personne ne courait devant lui. No one ran ahead of him.
Il marchait devant la voiture. He was walking ahead of the car.
Je vois une voiture rouge devant. I see a red car ahead.
Il est devant nous en mathématiques. He is ahead of us in mathematics.
La gare est tout droit devant. The station is dead ahead.
Ne va pas trop loin devant nous. Don't go too far ahead of us.
Tom avait un long chemin devant lui. Tom has a long drive ahead of him.
Tom s'est assis deux rangées devant moi. Tom sat two rows ahead of me.
Si t'es malin, tu profiteras pendant que t'es devant. If you're smart, you'll cash out while you're ahead.
Tout le monde respectait la limite de vitesse, alors je savais qu'il y avait probablement un radar devant moi. Everybody was obeying the speed limit, so I knew there was likely a speed trap ahead.
Tom, comme à son habitude, traînait en début de phrase, tandis que Mary, déjà douze mots devant lui, se trouvait maintenant en son milieu. Tom, as his usual, lagged at the beginning of the sentence, when Mary, already twelve words ahead of him, was now in its middle.
Mary prétendait que Tom était trois mots devant lui, alors que quand il se retourna, il vit qu'entre elle et lui, il n'y en avait bien que deux. Mary argued that Tom stood three words ahead of her, although when he turned back, he saw that, between she and he, there were only two.
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