Sentence examples for my prelude from inspiring English sources

Skyline Drive was my prelude.

Chopin wrote to Pleyel in January 1839: "I am sending you my Preludes [(Op. 28)].

One caption reads, "My first Prelude that I got into a bad accident with".

This is my reality, the prelude to the ending of one of my greatest nightmares.

In "The Laptop Ate My Attention Span" (Preludes, April 16), Abby Ellin laments how M.B.A. students are using their laptop computers during class to surf the Internet and send e-mail to their friends.

One time, in Manhattan, I raced a BMW M5 down the middle of Fifth Avenue in my friend's Prelude.

"My Country, My Country" observes the prelude to the 2005 Iraqi elections through the eyes of a Sunni doctor seeking a seat on the Baghdad Provincial Council.

Of course #3 and #4 are just a prelude to my personal gripe... 5) Why Do White and Black People Judge My Biracial Ass For Making Humorous Commentary On Race (unlikely to work as a title for most comedians) -- If you can tell from #3 and#4 this is personal.

It also provided a lulling prelude to my 9 a.m. treatment -- a "So Swedish" massage.

Incredibly, El Castillo's deer painting, along with renderings of archetypal bison, horned ibex and extinct cows, were merely a prelude to my ultimate goal: to see, deep within the cave, an extraordinary smudge of calcite-encrusted red paint – by all accounts, a treasure found nowhere else on the globe.

I offer these sweeping claims as a prelude to my own story because, without it, I'm just a wild-eyed freelancer with a crazy tale.