Words similar to overture

Example sentences for: overture

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

We hear the horns of The Mikado overture, then Leigh cuts to the fully realized opening scene on stage at the Savoy: "We are gentlemen of Japan …" Just that chorus is enough to reanimate the audience--to make people sit up and grin.
After reviewing the overture, however, the U.S. called Iraq's conditional concessions "unacceptable" and remains poised to attack.
He wrote: "Just two weeks ago, however, Steele repeated to Newsweek that Willey had told her about a sexual 'overture' by Clinton."
For Berger's authorization, see NSC memo, TNT to Berger, responding to Taliban's September overture, Oct.20,2000.
I hesitate to use the word "offbeat," which has come to describe a metronomical quirkiness that's as predictable as anything on the beat, but here the surreal touches are sprung without overture, like frogs that just happen to be hopping across the screen.