prologue

Example Sentences

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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

UK road champion Sam Watson won the opening prologue of the race for Ineos Grenadiers.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2026

But if past is prologue, investors, at least, could come out ahead.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 31, 2025

The silence into which Briony read the prologue was tense.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan