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

This is how New Orleans community organizer Malik Rahim prefaces the calm before “Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time” plunges into one of the deadliest storms in American history.

From Salon • Jul. 25, 2025

Benedict then largely kept to his word that he would live a life of prayer in retirement, emerging only occasionally from his converted monastery for special events and writing occasional book prefaces and messages.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2022

There it generally prefaces the beginning of a passage or shows up at its conclusion.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2021

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