How to Use preamble in a Sentence
preamble
noun- His early travels were just a preamble to his later adventures.
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Everything's fixed, and re-fixed, and fixed again in the preamble to the race.
—Maya Singer, Vogue, 3 July 2018
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Many lists of AI Ethics will start with a preamble that sets the stage for why the list is needed.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
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The piece spells out the opening words to the preamble of the US Constitution in shoelaces.
—Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2017
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The leaders read out the preamble to the constitution at the protest site.
—BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
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Matt walks in, doesn’t do a little preamble, and gives roses to Michelle and Rachael.
—Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2021
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Without pause or preamble, silent as orbits, a piece of the sun went away.
—Bethany Barnes, OregonLive.com, 21 Aug. 2017
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Paige, 12, took a quiz on the preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
—Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
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At present the party’s role is mentioned only in the preamble.
—The Economist, 26 Feb. 2018
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June is the beginning of summer, a leisurely month, the preamble to the action.
—Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
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All this was just a preamble to the evening’s main event, the first meeting between Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan.
—Robert Greenfield, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
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These are signs Texas anglers look for as preamble to the coming of the spring fishing season.
—Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
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The easiest way to think about it, Jang says, is as a sort of permanent preamble to your queries.
—David Pierce, The Verge, 20 July 2023
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All of which is a strange preamble to this gracious Tudor house that’s for sale in Detroit’s Palmer Woods.
—Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2021
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The attack on the TV tower appears to be a preamble to a full-scale Russian attack on Kyiv.
—Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
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That's why the preamble of the Constitution says in order to form a more perfect union.
—CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
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In many countries of the world the preamble makes clear that the constitution is based on religion.
—Sean Illing, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
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The multi-episode buildup to the tape’s distribution is slow, but so full of dread that the long preamble is forgivable.
—Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
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Jake was sent the demo without the preamble explaining the concept.
—Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
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For the entire preamble and final rule issued by CMS, click here.
—Alan Gassman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
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The killing occurs a bit past the middle of the book and governs its trajectory: an edenic preamble followed by a long fall.
—Lucy Sante, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
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According to the preamble, 30% of dead loons in a Wisconsin study were lead-poisoned.
—Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
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The preamble was that the working titles of the songs were what the songs needed to accomplish in relationship to the character.
—Nekesa Mumbi Moody, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
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At the beginning of the NYPD’s video presenting footage from the incident, a police spokesman gave a preamble.
—Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 17 Aug. 2020
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Starting our drive outside of a city meant there was no preamble: I was flung into the car chase mid-scene, already in hot pursuit.
—Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
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If that prediction comes true, then what befell the Northeast could look like mere preamble.
—Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 3 July 2020
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Running slight more than 300 words, most of it preamble, the AUMF has its power in its simplicity.
—Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
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That was only a preamble for his performance in the 23-16 victory over the Seahawks.
—Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2020
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The nominating contest’s long preamble concluded on Monday evening, with Trump winning the Iowa caucuses with around fifty per cent of the vote.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2024
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The radicals who would rise to the top of the revolution, most of them frustrated lawyers and journalists, had justified their coup with pamphlets and legal preambles.
—Dominic Green, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2023
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