How to Use prelude in a Sentence

prelude

noun

• The dancers swing their arms, clapping in time to a string-heavy prelude.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• This could prove to be not the twilight of the tyrants but a prelude to a darker era.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2022
• The attack on the A.P. course turned out to be the prelude to a much larger agenda.
  — Eliza Fawcett, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• The attack on the AP course turned out to be the prelude to a much larger agenda.
  — Anemona Hartocollis and Eliza Fawcett, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Feb. 2023
• The chaos that erupted on the House floor this past week may end up as a prelude to the Congress to come.
  — Lisa Mascaro, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2023
• The prelude was an off-camber cascade with a steep hairpin turn to the right.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 10 Nov. 2022
• The finish was even better, a prelude to what Woods delivered at the end of the day.
  — Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023
• The trick lies in successfully hiding the messy prelude from the guests.
  — Stacey Lastoe, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 June 2023
• The latter stages of the film are chewed up, interminably, by the prelude to this major event.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2022
• Hooting this time of the year can also be a prelude to breeding.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Oct. 2022
• Kevin Merida, who is Black, resigned this month as a prelude of what was to come.
  — Curtis Bunn, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
• The 1980s produced many classic movies on teen life, and Fame was a worthy prelude of great films to come.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• But recent news still smacks of a prelude to Bacigalupi’s tale.
  — The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
• Consider this gallery as a prelude to a new phase in Lemons’ life and career.
  — Essence, 19 Sep. 2023
• After all, for many sellers, a sale is a prelude to a purchase.
  — John Walkup, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• In the preludes to the third and fourth acts were glimpses of a wilder, more expansive and more beautiful vision of Bizet’s score.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
• That would be a prelude to a human landing a year or two later that would be the first since the last of the Apollo missions in 1972.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2023
• There was no way to know whether the volley of missiles that hit the city was a prelude to a larger attack or simply more of the same.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2023
• The new linkage makes the drag strip all sweetness and light instead of the prelude to a visit to the chiropractor.
  — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
• The nutty, hard cheese wisps prove a prelude, like bubbles to Champagne, of the complex depth hidden.
  — Louisa Chu, Chicago Tribune, 12 Sep. 2022
• For some, this week is simply a prelude to Cowboys-Jaguars in Jacksonville.
  — Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2022
• This column finished the season at a 52 percent success rate against the spread, but all of those games were a mere prelude to this one.
  — David Hill, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• All of this is prelude to the coming reckoning at next month’s synod.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• The wall was an important prelude to the Tiananmen Square protests that followed a decade later.
  — Brian Spegele, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2022
• Investors can’t agree on whether the tech-stock rally looks like the prelude to an eventual bust—like that of the dot-com era—or the start of a more durable rally.
  — WSJ, 20 June 2023
• Getting dressed is, in a sense, always a prelude to a performance.
  — Katy Kelleher, ELLE, 31 May 2023
• Well, wouldn’t that be a nice prelude into the College Football Playoff.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 29 Dec. 2022
• With Oklahoma, a bowl was viewed as a given and a mere prelude to much bigger and better things.
  — Dallas News, 20 Nov. 2022
• Curacao and Panama will play in the third-place game at 3 p.m. Friday as a prelude to the championship.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 9 Feb. 2024
• Of course, for Republicans, all of this is just a prelude to a national ban.
  — Molly Taft, The New Republic, 30 June 2023

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