How to use "prelude" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "prelude" in popular movie and book plots

  • As prelude to signing the adoption papers, she outlines the reasons she wants Emira back.  - Welcome to Sarajevo
  • Starfleet fears that the disruption may be a prelude to an invasion and has ordered all ships except the Enterprise to leave the area.  - The Alternative Factor
  • Sax sets up a meet with Carcosa at the dealer's apartment building, where Sax is given a hallucinogenic white powder as a prelude to the Aklo.  - Alan Moore's The Courtyard
  • Durant and one of his men- Skip (who has a false left leg)- intercept Julie, kidnapping her as the prelude to his attack on Westlake's lair.  - Darkman
  • The game begins with a brief prelude in which the player is a humble servant in Lord Dimwit's scullery.  - Zork Zero
  • The "Final Solution" is mentioned, meaning apparently the extinction of all Zeons on Ekos, as a prelude to the entire destruction of Zeon.  - Patterns of Force (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • They viewed the Federation's presence in this part of space as an intrusion and a possible prelude to full-scale invasion.  - Arena (Star Trek: The Original Series)
  • Syrinx is captured and tortured as a prelude to possession.  - The Reality Dysfunction
  • and how this idyllic time of romantic, intimate gaming between them was a happy prelude to the miserable, unsuccessful marriage that followed.  - The Leopard
  • The events covered in the play include the selection of a new capital city, the Burning of Washington in 1814, the prelude to theS.  - 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (musical)
  • Marcello also takes confession, despite his apparent atheism, as a prelude to the Catholic wedding his wife expects.  - The Conformist
  • The traveling preacher teaches that popular dance is a prelude to 'immorality'.  - The Neon Bible
  • This two-part OVA from 2000 serves as a prelude for Galaxy Express 999, explaining a lot of the series' backstory.  - Galaxy Express 999
  • The plot of Vagrant Story, titled "The Phantom Pain", is presented as the prelude to the "story of the wanderer".  - Vagrant Story
  • She immediately re-performs the same prelude after Eva finishes in her own preferred interpretation of the music.  - Autumn Sonata
  • This is a prelude to the acquisition of advanced weapons of mass destruction by this terrorist group.  - Soldier of Fortune (video game)

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