How to Use preamble in a Sentence

preamble

noun

• His early travels were just a preamble to his later adventures.
• Everything's fixed, and re-fixed, and fixed again in the preamble to the race.
  — Maya Singer, Vogue, 3 July 2018
• Many lists of AI Ethics will start with a preamble that sets the stage for why the list is needed.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 Apr. 2022
• The piece spells out the opening words to the preamble of the US Constitution in shoelaces.
  — Michael B. Farrell, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 May 2017
• The leaders read out the preamble to the constitution at the protest site.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2019
• Matt walks in, doesn’t do a little preamble, and gives roses to Michelle and Rachael.
  — Ali Barthwell, Vulture, 9 Mar. 2021
• Without pause or preamble, silent as orbits, a piece of the sun went away.
  — Bethany Barnes, OregonLive.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Paige, 12, took a quiz on the preamble of the U.S. Constitution.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2018
• But, as the pair acknowledge in the book’s preamble, García Márquez didn’t want the work to be released.
  — Pau Mosquera and Oscar Holland, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• At present the party’s role is mentioned only in the preamble.
  — The Economist, 26 Feb. 2018
• June is the beginning of summer, a leisurely month, the preamble to the action.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• All this was just a preamble to the evening’s main event, the first meeting between Sam Shepard and Bob Dylan.
  — Robert Greenfield, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Apr. 2023
• These are signs Texas anglers look for as preamble to the coming of the spring fishing season.
  — Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• The easiest way to think about it, Jang says, is as a sort of permanent preamble to your queries.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 20 July 2023
• All of which is a strange preamble to this gracious Tudor house that’s for sale in Detroit’s Palmer Woods.
  — Judy Rose, Detroit Free Press, 2 Oct. 2021
• The attack on the TV tower appears to be a preamble to a full-scale Russian attack on Kyiv.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 1 Mar. 2022
• That's why the preamble of the Constitution says in order to form a more perfect union.
  — CBS News, 7 Oct. 2020
• In many countries of the world the preamble makes clear that the constitution is based on religion.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 18 Dec. 2018
• The multi-episode buildup to the tape’s distribution is slow, but so full of dread that the long preamble is forgivable.
  — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022
• Jake was sent the demo without the preamble explaining the concept.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2020
• For the entire preamble and final rule issued by CMS, click here.
  — Alan Gassman, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2021
• The killing occurs a bit past the middle of the book and governs its trajectory: an edenic preamble followed by a long fall.
  — Lucy Sante, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
• According to the preamble, 30% of dead loons in a Wisconsin study were lead-poisoned.
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
• The preamble was that the working titles of the songs were what the songs needed to accomplish in relationship to the character.
  — Nekesa Mumbi Moody, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
• At the beginning of the NYPD’s video presenting footage from the incident, a police spokesman gave a preamble.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 17 Aug. 2020
• Starting our drive outside of a city meant there was no preamble: I was flung into the car chase mid-scene, already in hot pursuit.
  — Nicole Trilivas, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2023
• If that prediction comes true, then what befell the Northeast could look like mere preamble.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 3 July 2020
• Running slight more than 300 words, most of it preamble, the AUMF has its power in its simplicity.
  — Joshua Keating, Slate Magazine, 7 Aug. 2017
• That was only a preamble for his performance in the 23-16 victory over the Seahawks.
  — Gary Klein Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2020
• The tune makes for a preamble of sorts for the group’s upcoming sixth album, Neon Pill — due out May 17 — which was written following the death of the Shultz brothers’ father and those of other friends.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024