Example Sentences

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What I have recounted is what Segal called her ur-story, and some version of it prefaces every article written about her.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

She prefaces this fact with how appreciative she is for TikTok, her new followers and Chick-Fil-A at large.

From Salon • Apr. 30, 2024

“I do have something for you, and I think it might hold the heart of the show,” he prefaces with sincerity.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

As in Chaucer’s poem, she prefaces her tale with what is essentially her life story, enlisting the pub’s patrons as her many husbands and various friends and acquaintances.

From New York Times • Apr. 6, 2023

The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas