How to Use prologue in a Sentence

prologue

noun
  • But that's all prologue to what has changed about the Civic.
    Annie White, Car and Driver, 16 June 2021
  • But through Coogler and Cole’s purview, the past is prologue.
    Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • This was supposed to have been the prologue of his life.
    Rebecca Makkai, chicagotribune.com, 21 May 2018
  • The past is prologue, but also the present — their present.
    Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2021
  • So that was one of the larger tasks for us in that prologue.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Jan. 2023
  • Scary as that may sound, the past may have been merely the prologue.
    Vinit Patel, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • The prologue was very much a tragedy and set up the world building for the series.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The past is a prologue, something to treasure on the long road of life.
    Billboard China, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Of course, the prologue to City’s title had dragged on for most of the season.
    Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Khan wrote in the prologue to the highly readable book.
    Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • The prologue was both the hardest and the easiest part to write.
    Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 July 2019
  • So if past is prologue, Gensler won't give Trump a chance to keep his word.
    Brady Dale, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • Yet still for these CEOs, good and bad, the past is likely a prologue to the future.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The prologue to the opera had been an argument among the gods of Fortune, Virtue and Love.
    Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
  • To keep Putin in check is to remember the past as prologue.
    Douglas London, CNN, 11 Apr. 2022
  • All that aside, the only thing here is that after the prologue, the first episode may come out of left field.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Whether the past is prologue, and what the past even means, will animate the contest.
    Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Oh, and some scraps of story too, as seen in the prologue video below.
    Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 27 Apr. 2018
  • If past is prologue, that banker is going to be proven wrong in about 10 years.
    Anthony Effinger, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
  • While the prologue seems a little longer than most, the game does loosen some of the hand-holding as Mario goes along.
    Felecia Wellington Radel, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
  • And if past is prologue, that's bad news for McConnell.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Its giveth-and-taketh-away vibe felt profound as a prologue.
    Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
  • And that’s not counting the prologue, which adds nine years to the final tally.
    Joey Morona, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2022
  • In many ways, this story is the prologue to The Social Network.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Colin Cairnes The whole style of that opening prologue is based on that.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The first look contained a photo of what appears to be a prologue to the album.
    Lauren Huff, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The problem is, thanks to climate change, past is no longer prologue.
    Matt Alderton, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
  • The prologue introduces the listener to the concept that will guide the show.
    Esther Choy, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
  • The second Quiet Place arguably peaked with its apocalyptic prologue, so a whole movie set during that same time period is intriguing.
    A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 20 May 2024
  • And if past is prologue, polls are underestimating Trump’s appeal.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Sep. 2024

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