front matter
Example Sentences
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Weeks later, a bemused Hackford called King again to confess they’d been unable to locate Little Tall Island, notwithstanding the hand-drawn map in the book’s front matter.
From Salon • Mar. 23, 2025
At the risk of reading too much into a book’s front matter, it helps to know that Groff’s sister, to whom she dedicates the book, is superstar triathlete Sarah True.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023
Introduction: The first section of a report after any front matter, such as an abstract or table of contents.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Paging through this front matter feels like waiting for a haunted carnival ride to start, only to be wrong-footed.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 31, 2019
These pieces of front matter have been omitted from the present reproduction as containing nothing material to the reading or interpretation of the play.
From The Man of the World (1792) by Macklin, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
