Example Sentences

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I will preface my answer by saying that the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a non-partisan organization.

From Salon • May 29, 2025

I will preface this section with the disclaimer that there is no such thing as a completely bad potato.

From Salon • Nov. 28, 2021

And I will preface it by saying I know that you are already exhausted and feel like you’ve got nothing left.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2020

I will preface this by saying fantastic show, I love it.

From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2012

I will preface my abstract of the treatise of the two scholars by some passages taken from the letters of Camillo Paderni, director of the excavations, to Mr. Thomas Hollis, in 1754.

From Naples Past and Present by Norway, Arthur H.