prefaces in English

noun
1
an introduction to a book, typically stating its subject, scope, or aims.
This article is excerpted from the new preface to the updated paperback edition.
synonyms:introductionforewordpreambleprologuepreludefront matterprelimsintrolead-inexordiumproemprolegomenon
verb
1
provide (a book) with a preface.
the book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner
synonyms:precedeintroducebeginopenstart
noun
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "prefaces" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "prefaces", or refer to the context using the word "prefaces" in the English Dictionary.

1. A porch prefaces the entrance.

2. 15 She prefaces her book with an attempt to sum up the whole hideous story.

3. Besides the marginal notes, the Geneva Bible contained illustrations, prefaces, and maps —all designed to enhance understanding.

4. A private, gated entry prefaces the tree-lined drive where rolling pastures are glimpsed through the thicket of trees at Chigoe Highlands

5. 10 The whole machinery of prefaces, dedicatory epistles and the like is designed to focus attention on the writer himself.

6. A private, gated entry prefaces the tree-lined drive where rolling pastures are glimpsed through the thicket of trees at Chigoe Highlands

7. This commemorative edition of The Sleeper Awakes features Wells's preferred revision of the novel—published in 1910 and never before widely available in the United States—and his prefaces to the 1910 and 1921 editions

8. The Eighteenth Brumaire Of Louis Bonaparte By KARL MARX Translated by DANIEL DE LEON Prefaces by DANIEL DE LEON, FREDERICK ENGELS and KARL MARX ILLUSTRATED With Glossary PUBLISHING HISTORY Translated for publication in The People, official organ of the Socialist Labor Party of America, and serialized in weekly installments from September 12 through

9. Domenico Giacobazzi (1444-1528), the eminent Canonist whose Tractatus de concilio (1511-1523) prefaces Mansi's Amplissima collectio, held that the deliberative vote belongs only to bishops, but can be extended to others either by the pope who can invite and habilitate others or, in the pope's absence, by the unanimous consent of the bishops.