Sample Sentences for
prelude
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    The move is seen as a prelude to a declaration of war.
    prelude = something that comes before and warns of what is to come
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    Rudy understood nothing, and that night was the prelude of things to come.  (source)
    prelude = something that prepares for or introduces what is to follow
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    The person, whoever it was, gave a small cough, evidently as a prelude to speaking.  (source)
    prelude = something to prepare for what follows
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    Some felt it was not a prelude to arrest.†  (source)
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    Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story.†  (source)
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    So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of reverie lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.†  (source)
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    On the grim Pequod's forecastle, ye shall ere long see him, beating his tambourine; prelusive of the eternal time, when sent for, to the great quarter-deck on high, he was bid strike in with angels, and beat his tambourine in glory; called a coward here, hailed a hero there!†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Thus in one neighborhood in which they had lived, when he was but a child of seven, his father, having always preluded every conversation with "Praise the Lord," he heard boys call "Here comes old Praise-the-Lord Griffiths."†  (source)
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    The questions are only a prelude to what he really wants: trouble.†  (source)
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    But I was so determined not to try, not to be anybody different that I learned to play only the most ear-splitting preludes, the most discordant hymns.†  (source)
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    He would say it was a warm evening, or ask his partner to take an ice, with a tone as sad and confidential as if he were breaking her mother's death to her, or preluding a declaration of love.†  (source)
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    Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice.†  (source)
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    Grim faces would prelude their predictions—"loss of speech, loss of movement, paralysis."†  (source)
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