How to Use preparatory in a Sentence

preparatory

adjective

• There is a lot of preparatory work involved in teaching.
• A lot of my preparatory work is always a focus on the structure of the film.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• The other woman is in the preparatory course and hasn't yet made it to the assessment phase.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Star Tribune, 15 July 2021
• But copies of the work, as well as a cartoon, or preparatory drawing, of the two kings, survive.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Richie sent him out with host Ryan Seacrest to do a little preparatory singing.
  — al, 17 Feb. 2020
• The company, made up of dancers ages 16 to 20, is a preparatory program for young dancers from all over the world.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• In his book, Hind says that there was no preparatory drawing for Naked Woman.
  — Tony Tetro, Town & Country, 22 Nov. 2022
• Once again, since the Holocaust was not a subject of these preparatory talks, there was no reason to include them in my book.
  — Tim Parks, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
• The closest thing to an elite preparatory institution in my hometown was the Catholic school.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 5 Aug. 2019
• But preparatory measures for most of the night’s guest list were already well underway.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 5 May 2020
• Lead white should have been used in the preparatory ground layers and in the white paint, but only minimal quantities were present.
  — Quartz, 22 May 2021
• The Polish navy said the bomb was found last year during preparatory work to deepen a waterway leading to the port of Szczecin in the northwestern part of the country.
  — Fox News, 14 Oct. 2020
• Salem Academy is a college preparatory day and boarding school for girls in grades 9 through 12.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• An idea hatched by the Dodgers’ front office, Smith’s few weeks with the club were a preparatory course designed to ease his ascension to the big leagues whenever he was called up to play.
  — Jorge Castillo, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
• But sometimes any preparatory measures may be to little or no avail.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The school also launched a preparatory program for Arabic speakers from East Jerusalem.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Aug. 2023
• The princess sat for more than 30 sittings at Shanks' studio in London to capture the image, which served as a preparatory study for a formal full-length portrait.
  — Breanna Bell, PEOPLE.com, 1 July 2022
• According to the complaint, Queen of Apostles removed windows from the church, which seems to be a preparatory move to the imminent razing of the building.
  — Evan Frank, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 May 2020
• With the end of the war in Europe imminent, these preparatory meetings set the stage for a final, founding conference.
  — Philippe Sands, The New York Review of Books, 23 June 2020
• The school is a free, private, college preparatory elementary and middle school for young men in Louisville.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 10 Dec. 2019
• Galloway said a few weeks ago of his life at the 1,850-acre college preparatory boarding school in Northern Indiana.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, Indianapolis Star, 26 July 2019
• Its plan is to take an even harder look at grade point averages in core, college-preparatory classes.
  — Ron Lieber, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2020
• Twenty years later it would be sold again and transformed into a college preparatory day school.
  — Mola Lenghi, CBS News, 5 Aug. 2020
• As a result, the majority of students who gain entrance come from a handful of the country’s best high schools and preparatory programs.
  — Rachel Donadio, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
• All the preparatory steps are about keeping any soil below the gravel, to avoid creating invitations for weed seeds to take hold.
  — New York Times, 2 Mar. 2022
• Steller team members began meeting with the Cooks last January and have already led them through a series of preparatory steps for a downsize move.
  — Mark Samuelson, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• Still, the number of private-school pupils would fall, and some schools, mostly preparatory ones (which take pupils until age 13), would probably go under.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• The Ferns did not schedule preparatory camps or matches ahead of the tournament while their country locked down completely to ride out the pandemic.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 20 July 2021
• While jumping right past any boring preparatory steps in order to get to the more enjoyable part of an activity might sound easy.
  — Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2022
• The researchers hypothesized that it may have been caused by preparatory chemotherapy used to wipe out the patient’s bone marrow.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024