Sample Sentences for
preparatory
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    Matthew encountered the stationmaster locking up the ticket office preparatory to going home for supper, and asked him if the five-thirty train would soon be along.  (source)
    preparatory = in preparing
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    It was a long train ride up to our prep school in Boston, and there were guys on that train.  (source)
    prep school = preceding and preparing for something
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    Perhaps, thought Natalie, he had attended an English preparatory school or military academy.†  (source)
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    At least, as a side effect of the preparatory operations, he had finally been cured of his rage.†  (source)
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    And welcome, teachers and students from ...the Beecher Prep School!†  (source)
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    He had made one careless blunder though, because he had skimped a bit on his preparatory research.†  (source)
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    Mostly with prep school jerks and college jerks.†  (source)
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    He mounted a starting box, leaned forward from the waist as he had seen racing swimmers do but never had occasion to do himself—I noticed a preparatory looseness coming into his shoulders and arms, a controlled ease about his stance which was unexpected in anyone trying to break a record.†  (source)
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    Without consulting her husband, she arranged for her son to he shipped off to a military prep school—the first of several failed attempts to "normalize" the boy.†  (source)
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    In the snow, the clock tower of Upper Canada College appears to preside over a preparatory school in a small New England town; when it's not snowing, the cars and buses on the surrounding roads are more numerous, the sounds of traffic are less muted, and the presence of downtown Toronto seems closer.†  (source)
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    In London he had been far too old to run: now, he ran at a speed which would have made him certain to win the hundred yards' race at any Prep school in England.†  (source)
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    Across the room, Don Barrett was putting up an extension ladder preparatory to gilding the overhead steel beams with crepe paper.†  (source)
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    He wore a velvet prep school blazer with a crest emblazoned on it in glittering thread, and at least a dozen rings.†  (source)
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