Words similar to prologue

Example sentences for: prologue

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

Yardley's conclusions don't add up to much in any conventional biographical sense, and he admits as much in his prologue: "[Exley] lived on another planet, if not in another universe."
A well-known literary example is Quince's mis-structuring of his prologue within A Midsummer Night's Dream:
The Past As Prologue
Hundreds of thousands of years before China was to become the world’s longest-running civilization, the prologue was enacted by means of the flicker of a carefully tended fire.
We hear the narrator's voice for the first and only time, the text as spare as a biblical prologue: "The electric car is here."