Use "prelude" in a sentence

1. He never guessed she had used this dinner as a prelude to a seduction

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2. Ha but tis just a prelude to the main storm, now that is going to be a real dilly

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3. “That was just a prelude last night,” she asked surprised, “my heavens man, what is a real storm like?”

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4. For what it was worth, this time was a prelude to trouble because the captains of Atlantean industry were already stirring up trouble by trying to find cheap labor on the mainland

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5. “When will you convince Harry to ask for your hand?” She posed without prelude to Kaitlyn's spontaneously blushing cheeks

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6. prelude to a more intimate interaction

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7. This was the prelude to the three months I spent with Elizabeth

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8. The elder had a particularly mordant look: prelude to a serious matter, of course

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9. Perhaps, Molo thought, these were side-effects of malnourishment and dehydration, a prelude to hallucination

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10. If this was the near that John had thought that he was making reference to, then either all that had come before was prelude to the last century of a single millennium, the “end of all things” If so the beginning of all things, the single millennium, would have to have been 900 BC or near the reputed beginning of the Israelite Kingdom

11. Last, the beautiful song, prelude or symphony will be the event social, political or economic that each organization executes through its unique task

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12. The kids liked the format because it had an elective element, and it was a good prelude to Rosegard’s “AP”

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13. as a prelude to those final few moments of sexual release

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14. Above their heads they could hear the musical prelude to the next scene

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15. The nearly emergent sun still lay hidden, revealed only by its prelude of rays that fairly leaped up from the horizon and into a sky now nearly clear of the still-lingering ground haze

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16. Nearing the club door he noticed the cloud buildup, a sure prelude to the usual afternoon thunderstorm

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17. revealed only by its prelude of rays that fairly leaped up from the horizon and into a sky now

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18. Athene, not understanding the Nordheim conversation had interpreted Titus’ silence as a prelude to something sinister and she whispered to him

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19. Since I don’t have any other books written yet, instead of listing other resources from myself, I decided to give a prelude of the next work in progress

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20. In certain situations, for example, in the prelude to ‘astral travelling’ and in

21. They are a prelude to your main

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22. It is merely a prelude to something even

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23. Lucas' next piece was Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Sharp Minor

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24. “Why don't you see this concept deprecate the value of life itself?” said the swamiji, as a prelude to expostulate his theory of moksha

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25. A good talk or a verbal joust is an interesting prelude to romance

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26. “For most of the rest of us, teasing is a prelude to courtship

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27. As it happened, I had learned more than I appreciated about reading people, so I was not fooled by a simple sniffle portending to be a prelude to cold

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28. As it happened, I had learned much more than I appreciated about reading people, so I was not fooled by a simple sniffle portending to be a prelude to cold

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29. That was however only a prelude to something much worse

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30. need of attention and physical contact, but the prelude that had been a

31. Then a convoy of warthogs, ngiris, drove in and with it the tense prelude to gang warfare

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32. It was an unholy alliance; Poland and Britain found themselves thrown together in the special circumstances of the diplomatic prelude to the war

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33. She had sold off her old Honda Prelude and bought the Duke’s silver Porsche for old times’ sake

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34. that rises on the basis of a lower cost of equity may be a prelude to a rise in the stock

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35. Nevertheless, investing in a lower stochastic “debt” state would also be a prelude to a

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36. This may in fact be a prelude to a large scale Soviet invasion in the months to come, with the seizure of Poland and of the Baltic states as minimum Soviet objectives

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37. If this is the prelude to a war, you would be quite a valuable asset to the Federation

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38. approaching and that this was a prelude to a deceleration procedure

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39. It is a definite prelude to the Scarleton series and the girl in the rain keeps haunting me and I feel like it won’t be long until we truly know who she is and what happens to her

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40. ‘You know that my preference,’ she pushed the banana into his mouth as a prelude, ‘is for the one with the skin

41. ‘I don’t know what Roopa told Sandhya about him, but that’s beside the point,’ said Sathyam, gulping all that there was in his glass, as a prelude to emptying his heart

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42. Playing cards and long walks served as a prelude to their love-

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43. It was to be lit to quicken the heart beat and offer a prelude to something that would only happen at the end of the film

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44. merely a prelude to the vision of the cooling down body, and what appeared to be physical death

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45. The birth of Ulysses before Nausicaa is a miracle of beauty that has lasted for millennia, but it is a symbol of the type of birth that is a prelude to the birth of immortal life, that only the fusion of cosmic and human forces can create

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46. The prelude to what was to come started playing out four days to the day of election proper

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47. In the awkward prelude to the service, no one else dared to move their heads

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48. Morrison, who played the organ, was forced to hurry in without having told Emma her whole opinion of those who gave and those who attended Sunday parties, but the prelude she played that day expressed the tumult of her mind very well, and struck Tussie Shuttleworth, who had sensitive ears, quite cold

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49. It could serve as a prelude to attending some of the concerts being sponsored by the organization

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50. The volunteer work and the meetup group were prelude to that new found belief in myself

51. It brought back memories not too dimmed of his very first meeting with the Leaf Child, a meeting that had been a prelude to a life which was to become entangled and different from what should have been

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52. the victims sensed the intruders’ instincts, it screams that they are not to be trusted, it was a prelude to hostilities,

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53. Then his eyes became gritty which was a prelude to a persistent dry cough and rasping throat

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54. The temperature was rising, the clouds were rolling and growing larger and darker like replicating cells, and a breeze was gathering that exhibited the characteristics of a prelude for a gale force wind

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55. area in the future is the prelude to any action

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56. He flattened it out, knelt upon it and bent forward so that his forehead would touch the earth as a prelude to fulfillment of his Muslim obligations

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57. Interestingly this smolder was but a poor prelude of what loomed close at hand

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58. Well, one of my students played the Prelude in C Minor, Opus

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59. true prelude to either two-step

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60. awakening, and this strange prelude was the introduction

61. This calm was but a prelude to the storm to

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62. Laughing together has always been a prelude to good love

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63. minutes long, a prelude to what they had really come to see: Bruce Lee’s

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64. raid, he wondered if it was the prelude to the war long feared

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65. How you led to the war, (that shall serve for our prelude, songs of

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66. She, first preluding with the instrument a low and musical prelude,

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67. What do you mean? I said; the prelude or what? Do you not know that all this is but the prelude to the actual strain which we have to learn? For you surely would not regard the skilled mathematician as a dialectician?

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68. open to him, was part of the prelude that pleasure deepened my blushes

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69. favour of which, removing the table out of the way, he began a prelude

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70. progress of his prelude: for now, whether the impressions of so great a

71. I shove my hair back with both hands, prelude to tearing it out in frustration

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72. I was actually stupid enough to look in the mirror, prelude to putting makeup on

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73. The harping chords of prelude closed

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74. (The pianola with changing lights plays in waltz time the prelude of My Girl's a Yorkshire Girl

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75. The audience felt that a startling revelation was to follow this ominous prelude

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76. And then, without prelude, he began to tell them how it was going to be

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77. Each case has been the prelude to another, and the crisis once over the actors have passed for ever out of our busy lives

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78. Little did I think that this would be the prelude to the most crushing

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79. He threw up my petticoat and shift, whilst my thighs were, by an instinct of nature, unfolded to their best; and my desires had so thoroughly destroyed all modesty in me, that even their being now naked and all laid open to him, was part of the prelude that pleasure deepened my blushes at, more than same

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80. Barville, no stranger, by experience, to these situations, soon knew the pass I was brought to soon perceived my extreme disorder; in favour of which, removing the table out of the way, he began a prelude that flattered me with instant relief, to which I was not, however, so near as I imagined: for as he was unbuttoned to me, and tried to provoke and rouse to action his unactive torpid machine, he blushingly owned that no good was to be expected from it, unless I took it in hand to re-excite its languid loitering powers, by just refreshing the smart of the yet recent blood-raw cuts, seeing it could, no more than a boy's top, keep up without lashing

81. And now an excess of timidity succeeded to an excess of confidence, and she thought herself so much at his mercy and discretion, that she stood passive throughout the whole progress of his prelude: for now, whether the impressions of so great a beauty had even made him forgive her sex, or whether her appearance or figure in that dress still humoured his first illusion, he recovered by degrees a good part of his first warmth, and keeping Emily with her breeches still unbuttoned, stript them down to her knees, and gently impelling her to lean down, with her face against the bed-side, placed her so, that the double way, between the double rising behind, presented the choice fair to him, and he was so fairly set on a mis-direction, as to give the girl no small alarms for fear of losing a maidenhead she had not dreamt of

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82. peculiar state of restlessness, peering continually out of the windows, and ceasing to take the short walk which had usually been the prelude to his dinner

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83. Could there be a more obvious prelude to an engagement? She governs me now, and I tutor two little boys of our own

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84. Scraps of popular songs were chorused with an enthusiasm which was a strange prelude to a scientific lecture, and there was already a tendency to personal chaff which promised a jovial evening to others, however embarrassing it might be to the recipients of these dubious honors

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85. Who could have guessed that it was the prelude to our supreme disaster? Let me say in a few words how the crushing blow fell upon us

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86. For a moment the voices cheered the heart of Tess, till she reasoned that this interview had its origin, on one side or the other, in the same attraction which had been the prelude to her own tribulation

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87. It is often a prelude to complete collapse

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88. O he was lustful as a Popish Monk in an Old Tale, his Appetite for Female Flesh well-whetted by the Spectacle of Gore we had beheld! In the Brothel I had heard tell of (and e’en witness’d) Men whose feeble Pow’rs could only be arouz’d by Desecration of the Female Form, but ne’er had I encounter’d Murder as a Prelude to a Debauch, tho’ doubtless uncheckt Debauchery is common enough following Executions

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89. Such major rows are rare because the board and the auditors argue about such items at enormous length, and auditors bend over backwards to avoid such open conflicts, if only because it is almost always the prelude to a change of auditor, so the accountants will lose a source of revenue

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