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Example sentences for: overture

How can you use “overture” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In calling in the CIA to help on Flight 800, the FBI was making a peace overture in a bitter, age-old rivalry.
In the new version, directed by Jan De Bont ( Speed , 1994; Twister , 1996), that pounding comes early and serves as an overture for a bunch of computer-generated special effects: ghosties that swirl around like Tinkerbell, statues that spring to life and grab people.
If he declines your overture, you will have definitive information that the Coffee Shop Man holds no possibilities ...
Some women are subject to violence if they refuse a sexual overture, ask their husband to use a condom, or request an HIV test.
More hype for Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan . The opening scene is "an overture of pure cinema" and the climax an "almost unbearably thrilling firefight and demonstration of peak-form filmmaking."