Sample Sentences forpreamble (editor-reviewed)
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He answered without preamble.preamble = a preliminary introduction
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"You will have discipline," he said suddenly, without preamble. (source)preamble = introduction
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I was trying to remember the last time Margaret had entered my inner sanctum without some baggage, when she said without preamble or delay, "Mr. Hamilton, Red Stevens just died." (source)preamble = a preliminary introduction
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Without preamble, every stop pulled out to full volume, Peter was playing the "Wilhelmus"!† (source)
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I start, and then I stop because I can't just plunge straight into it, I need a preamble.† (source)
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"You want to ride with me uptown?" he said without preamble.† (source)
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"I've done what I can," Strigan said, with no preamble.† (source)
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Then Florentino Ariza extended his index finger, wet with brandy, so that she could suck it, as she had liked to do in the past during their preambles to love.† (source)
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Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.† (source)
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And invariably, quite apart from the text, there would be the preambles, and the illicit exchanges.† (source)
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I woke the others up and then, without preamble, film of the launch was run.† (source)
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When we were together he began to talk very gravely to me, and to tell me he did not bring me there to betray me; that his passion for me would not suffer him to abuse me; that he resolved to marry me as soon as he came to his estate; that in the meantime, if I would grant his request, he would maintain me very honourably; and made me a thousand protestations of his sincerity and of his affection to me; and that he would never abandon me, and as I may say, made a thousand more preambles than he need to have done.† (source)
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"I wish I were coming with you to Idris," he said without preamble.† (source)
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I have done it indeed sometimes; but the devil fetch me if ever I do again, since you make your preambles about it.† (source)
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"You'd do better to talk to me when I'm mad," she said, with no preamble.† (source)
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I am Don Quixote of La Mancha, whose calling it is to give aid to the needy of all sorts; and that being so, it is not necessary for you, señora, to make any appeal to benevolence, or deal in preambles, only to tell your woes plainly and straightforwardly: for you have hearers that will know how, if not to remedy them, to sympathise with them.† (source)
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