How to Use prologue in a Sentence

prologue

noun
  • Both men served as a prologue of sorts.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Jan. 2026
  • But look, this is the prologue this week, right, and – and next week.
    — NBC News, 12 Jan. 2025
  • But the recent past need not be prologue.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 17 June 2026
  • The past is never prologue to him.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Georgia will hope the past is prologue.
    — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • The group stage, all three months of it, was merely prologue.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2016
  • Scary as that may sound, the past may have been merely the prologue.
    — Vinit Patel, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • Past is, of course, not always prologue.
    — Tony Wood, The Conversation, 17 Apr. 2026
  • But through Coogler and Cole’s purview, the past is prologue.
    — Richard Newby, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
  • The past is a prologue, something to treasure on the long road of life.
    — Billboard China, Billboard, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The crew is jumping for her feet while the prologue’s still going.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Oh, and some scraps of story too, as seen in the prologue video below.
    — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The prologue was very much a tragedy and set up the world building for the series.
    — Ollie Barder, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The problem is, thanks to climate change, past is no longer prologue.
    — Matt Alderton, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2020
  • She’s fished out of the ocean and revealed gasping for breath in a brief prologue.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2025
  • Past as prologue The game of whack-a-mole has gone on for decades and has spanned the globe.
    — Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald, 16 Apr. 2025
  • So if past is prologue, Gensler won't give Trump a chance to keep his word.
    — Brady Dale, Axios, 15 Aug. 2024
  • If past is prologue, that banker is going to be proven wrong in about 10 years.
    — Anthony Effinger, Robb Report, 1 May 2021
  • So, partly by not calling it a prologue and not putting it in italics.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The prologue was both the hardest and the easiest part to write.
    — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 22 July 2019
  • For City, this ought to be little more than a prologue to greatness.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 25 Feb. 2018
  • Sanders led the rally from the prologue until the final stage.
    — New Atlas, 21 Jan. 2025
  • But the extent to which the past is prologue is uncertain.
    — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026
  • The antique-sounding names and places seem to be a conceit to show that past is prologue.
    — Frank Digiacomo, Billboard, 30 Apr. 2025
  • And that’s not counting the prologue, which adds nine years to the final tally.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland, 19 Aug. 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
  • Of course, the prologue to City’s title had dragged on for most of the season.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2018
  • Whether the past is prologue, and what the past even means, will animate the contest.
    — Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Stopping along the side of a road for a call of nature doesn’t turn out so well for the dudes in the prologue.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • But if the past is prologue, getting the measure over the finish line will be a tall task.
    — Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 3 Aug. 2025

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