front matter
Example Sentences
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Paging through this front matter feels like waiting for a haunted carnival ride to start, only to be wrong-footed.
From The New Yorker
Much of this material is winningly geeky and enthusiastic: “As front matter goes, I get especially giddy about translator’s notes, and for years I’ve toyed with the idea of editing an anthology of them.”
From New York Times
Even the front matter and jacket flap are upside-down amusing.
From New York Times
The front matter of “Every Night I Dream of Hell” includes a dramatis personae that runs to 40-odd entries.
From Washington Post
What gets done up front matters most; what gets pushed to the rear might never get done.
From Washington Post
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