prologue
Example Sentences
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If the past acts as prologue, the bad news is that oil prices likely haven’t peaked.
From MarketWatch • May 11, 2026
Suspense is useful as prologue, but it amounts to a broken promise if there isn’t a satisfying explanation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
He mentioned another guy, who is now in my prologue, Georg Ritter von Schönerer, a Viennese aristocrat who was inspirational to Hitler at a given moment in Hitler’s youth.
From Slate • Mar. 2, 2026
But the script for Besson’s “Dracula” keeps getting distracted with multiple flashbacks — the film opens with a 15-minute prologue in which Vlad straps on his fanged helmet and rides into battle.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2026
“Say, what’re you doing today, anyhow? All dressed up and mooning around like the prologue to a suttee. Did you go to Psychology this morning?”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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