Sentence examples for prefacing from inspiring English sources

The word "prefacing" is correct and usable in written English
It is usually used in reference to introducing an idea or situation that will be talked about in greater detail. For example, "Prefacing the story, we must first understand the context in which it was set."

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prefacing

verb

Present participle of preface

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Figures on the left and right have been prefacing their remarks with the caveat: of course, we don't know who did these awful crimes, and we must let the investigation run its course.

He might have three weeks or three months ahead of him as first-deputy prime minister, but the changeable Mr Yeltsin has long been fond of prefacing high-level sackings with extravagant declarations of loyalty.

In a nutshell, it concerns prefacing "intelligence" with adjectives, in this case "artificial".

Ms Hay makes the point by prefacing her chapters with tiny stories about unfortunate women sometimes friends and relations who suffered social exile and disgrace, related in letters that Mary Anne collected throughout her life.Childless herself, there was something of the child about Mary Anne.

The question is one of contraction, because I don't see how "Bachelorette's Out of Control" can be correct without "The" prefacing it.

The brothers then published (in 1826) a translation of Thomas Crofton Croker's Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, prefacing the edition with a lengthy introduction of their own on fairy lore.

"He was not of an age, but for all time!" exclaimed Ben Jonson in his poem "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author Mr. William Shakespeare," one of several dedicatory poems prefacing the great 1623 Folio of Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, the first collected volume of Shakespeare's works.

So, starting sentences with so No interviewee on TV or radio is able to answer a question without prefacing it with "So".

Violetta's death haunts the action, prefacing each act in a tableau that mirrors Verdi's music, painting his heroine's death in the breathy strings of the Act I Prelude – the story's ending written before it has even begun.

Prefacing Bruckner's Eighth Symphony with an organ recital of Bach chorales by Klaus Sonnleitner was going to bring history full-circle, in that Sonnleitner is currently organist in the monastery where Bruckner played, while Bruckner himself had given recitals on the Royal Albert Hall organ.

Cameron can answer general questions about Government policy all day, prefacing each of his answers with a polite, "Let me answer Marie's question... ...... Corbyn's aim was to get to the end of question six and still be in post.

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