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How to use the word prelude in a Sentence?

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What they're seeing today is just a prelude of what's going to come if they don't sit down and listen to us and get rid of these restrictions, because then we'll shut the country down. We control this country. Not the government.

Bob Bolus

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Every indication suggests these actions will almost certainly be used as a prelude to even further aggression and an even larger invasion. If that occurs, many Ukrainians could die, the humanitarian consequences could be catastrophic. And the threat will not stop with Ukraine. All the free nations of the world will be affected if Putin’s aggression is allowed to stand unchallenged.

President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Holding yourself responsible often is a prelude to resignation. Not always, but … that's really the ultimate sanction. So, it is hard to take them seriously.

Marine Col. Andrew Milburn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The way I look at it, this is the substitute for a military response, not the prelude to it.

Henry Rome

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.

Justin Onuekwusi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Trade talks have finished without an agreement, of course, it doesn't help that almost as a prelude to the conversation you get tweets that are quite antagonistic.

Justin Onuekwusi

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

Reinhold Niebuhr

added by Normando
4 years ago

We overcame all kinds of scepticism and speculations about this summit and I believe that this is good for the peace, i believe this is a good prelude for peace.

Kim Jong

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The question now is whether Kim Jong Un is ready to deliver, or if this is a prelude to yet another deliberate effort to spurn the West.

Jonathan Schanzer

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The truth of that narrative is evidently of secondary importance, as the article exposed how the White House manipulated and, in some cases, manufactured facts to sell the reckless Iran nuclear deal to the American people as a prelude to large-scale disengagement from the Middle East, president Obama has taken great pains to set himself apart from his predecessor. He has succeeded in at least one respect by failing to find the courage to challenge his own assumptions, admit mistakes, and chart a better course.

John McCain

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

That's an area where there's just not enough national consensus at this stage to even consider it. And part of it is is people's concern that that becomes a prelude to taking people's guns away, part of the challenge of this is that the gun debate gets wrapped up in broader debates about whether the federal government is oppressive and there are conspiracy theories floating around the Internet these days all the time.

President Barack Obama

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What we’ve seen overnight is the prelude of things to come, following the signing of the nuclear agreement and the lifting of sanctions. An Iran that can funnel additional funds and weapons to terror organizations operating against Israel and Western interests in the region.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What's been happening the past few days, these statements by Miller and Putin, is all just a prelude for talks between Russia and Ukraine over a summer deal.

Valentyn Zemlyansky

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The pain of leaving those you've grown to love is only the prelude to an understanding of yourself and others.

Shirley MacLaine

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

The Tribune, Berlin, 1871

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.

Eduard Hanslick

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The willingness to sacrifice is the prelude to freedom.

Pesach Seder

added by acronimous
14 years ago

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