Example sentences for: preface

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

  • In his Preface, the author offers, “My purpose in writing this book is quite simple: to draw together and make accessible some of the academic and other reading that I have done in the past few years.

  • In the new edition of the book Wilson put this little note following the Shaw preface: “I am gratefully indebted to Mr. Bernard Shaw for the interest he has taken in the book and especially for his most generous action in taking the time from his crowded life to write so magnanimous and stimulating a Preface to it, without which this present cheap edition would not have been published.”

  • Although mention is made of the fact in the Preface, no reason is given, and one might assume that users of such a book would have no difficulty in assuming that the plural of breadwinner is breadwinners , even that the singular of teeth is tooth .

  • [N]ot attempt an unachievable comprehensiveness is a marvelous quotation that I must borrow for my next book, review, article, or comment on the parlous state of the world, and I shall now be able to preface it with, In the words of Nigel Rees ...

  • In the brief Preface, Bluestein defines Anglish as “Anglicized Yiddish.


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