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:

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.
Maybe just for a prologue: "Gimme that banana and I'll tell you the story of my old friend Ethan Powell.
The Past As Prologue
A well-known literary example is Quince's mis-structuring of his prologue within A Midsummer Night's Dream:
This was to be a fatal prologue to World War II.