Example sentences for: prefigured

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

  • Vocal-harmony groups ( do-wop ) from the Northeast and Midwest prefigured the style that Motown would soon codify as "soul ," while Nashville's Everly Brothers anticipated folk-rock .

  • Disco prefigured the most cataclysmic reordering of rock sound and attitude in 20 years: hip-hop, a form in which the technical "gimmickry" that Miller seems to both enjoy and distrust became central to music-making.

  • This new sound prefigured white, California cool jazz, but so had Billy Strayhorn's arrangements for Duke Ellington through the '40s, and so had Lester Young's diaphanous tenor saxophone playing with Count Basie even earlier.

  • After he was elected to the House in 1990, Santorum became the leader of the so-called "Group of Seven," a clique that prefigured the Gingrich class of 1994.

  • Just as his rise prefigured modern ideas about celebrity, so also did his fall.


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