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Example sentences for "preliminary"

Lexicographically close words:
prelatist; prelats; prelections; preliminaries; preliminarily; prelude; preluded; preludes; preluding; prelusive
  1. In looking over his various publications, it is remarkable how little is to be gleaned in the preliminary prefixes which relate to his own personal history, and how very rarely he touches on any thing referring to himself.

  2. Without other preliminary they led Fouchette down the platform.

  3. Reaching her chamber, she deposited the entire evening investment on the hearth, proceeding to the preliminary features of preparation.

  4. Acting under that authority, a score or two of police agents could have dispersed all preliminary gatherings.

  5. Since we have supervised the organisation of some classes for defectives, and have been able by some preliminary observations to take account of these dangers, we take it upon ourselves to give warning of them in advance.

  6. The long preliminary conversations which they had had together about this subject had convinced them that they would encounter opposition.

  7. We rejoice in the Peace Congress about to meet at The Hague, and hope it may be preliminary to the establishment of international arbitration.

  8. He was admitted, and after a little preliminary conversation, stated his desire to have an interview with his child, then aged five.

  9. If I take your wife, she may perhaps be restored to you after a preliminary examination.

  10. From these preliminary observations, the reader will understand the divers sentiments and interests which animated the different actors in the following scene.

  11. As Stuart stood awaiting Colonel Lee's arrival, Lieutenant Green, in command of the marines, stepped briskly to the aide's side to report the preliminary work.

  12. The crowd of eager reporters at the preliminary hearing had given him the cue.

  13. When the witnesses at the preliminary hearing had testified to his guilt and the Court had ordered the trial set, he was asked if he had counsel.

  14. The next thing to do is to obtain the loan of a hat, and having done so, it is well to perform a preliminary experiment with the same.

  15. There is a preliminary chapter of general advice to speakers.

  16. By strict calculation of time it was proved at the preliminary inquiry that the prisoner ran straight from those women servants to Perhotin’s without going home, and that he had been nowhere.

  17. The preliminary inquiry is not yet over,” Nikolay Parfenovitch faltered, somewhat embarrassed.

  18. Yet I must give some preliminary account of him, if only to explain one queer fact, which is that I have to introduce my hero to the reader wearing the cassock of a novice.

  19. It is true they made a preliminary investigation, from which it appeared that it was possible to lie so flat between the rails that the train could pass over without touching, but to lie there was no joke!

  20. At the preliminary inquiry, he told me with hysterical tears how the young Ivan Karamazov had horrified him by his spiritual audacity.

  21. Your peculiar view of the whole tragic episode is known to us already from the preliminary investigation.

  22. But you know the facts, gentlemen of the jury, from the preliminary inquiry.

  23. I only answered the questions asked me at the preliminary inquiry,” replied Alyosha, slowly and calmly.

  24. My mother must have been praying for me at that moment,’ were the prisoner’s words at the preliminary inquiry, and so he ran away as soon as he convinced himself that Madame Svyetlov was not in his father’s house.

  25. At first, of course, on the conclusion of the preliminary inquiry, relations and a few other persons could only obtain interviews with Mitya by going through certain inevitable formalities.

  26. And so I think it essential to press you to tell me what facts have led you to this conviction of your brother’s innocence and of the guilt of another person against whom you gave evidence at the preliminary inquiry?

  27. During this preliminary feeding both hens and chickens increased in live weight.

  28. Some persons, as preliminary to this step, recommend that the empty skin be soaked for a period of a few hours in pure alcohol.

  29. Even more, citizenship everywhere in the earlier period was a degree to be attained to only after proper education and preliminary military and political training.

  30. If retained and accepted, he took the preliminary vows and entered the philosophical course of study.

  31. It, too, at the beginning of the nineteenth century was in the preliminary state of collecting, coördinating, and trying to interpret data.

  32. Reports on it were made, and finally a preliminary Ratio was issued, in 1586.

  33. A preliminary outline of work was followed for many years, the whole being experimental.

  34. The six-year inferior course had to be completed, which required that the boy be sixteen to eighteen years of age before he could take the preliminary steps toward joining the Order.

  35. At first the old man offered to call Toto, who had always served the house, he said; but Malipieri answered that no help was needed in a mere preliminary exploration, and that another man would only be in the way.

  36. Yes, of course," she repeated, by way of preliminary conciliation.

  37. Such preliminary trouble is, however, well repaid, the amount of information given on any particular subject being practically coextensive with what is known about that subject.

  38. In December 1900 a preliminary agreement was made between M.

  39. This further stage of the negotiations proved even more laborious and protracted than the preliminary proceedings.

  40. After a series of preliminary trials the student obtained his first qualification by examination held before the literary chancellor in the prefecture to which he belonged.

  41. By a third article they reserved their right to come to a preliminary understanding for the protection of their interests in China, should any other power use those complications to obtain such territorial advantages under any form whatever.

  42. Simancas still recognizes the duty of the bishop to make preliminary inquiries into heresy, but even this had long before been forbidden, although there was a prolonged struggle before it was surrendered.

  43. One or two cases will show how little real benefit in practice the accused derived from all this elaborate parade of preliminary precautions.

  44. All this, however, was, I saw, preliminary and in preparation for some great coup.

  45. The proposition which she made without much preliminary held me aghast.

  46. There was, however, neither secret doctrine nor dogmatic teaching in this preliminary instruction.

  47. An officer of the Flying Corps first took him for a preliminary flight round the course, showing him what tests were required.

  48. Without further preliminary he commenced-- The crescent moon on high Is shining in the sky.

  49. A thrush was already giving a preliminary note, and sparrows were beginning to twitter under the eaves.

  50. The wearer of the blue shirt appeared to think he was doing a kind action in patronizing the strangers; his smile broadened, he forced his way forward among the pushing children, and opened the conversation with a preliminary cough.

  51. In printing on wool the chlorination of the wool is a most important preliminary operation.

  52. With these few preliminary remarks the methods of setting the various indigo vats will now be described in detail.

  53. San Domingo was to be but a preliminary step, after which the rest of the Spanish dominions in the New World would be gradually absorbed.

  54. It will be therefore unnecessary for us to detail the life and death of the hero of the poem, and we shall only throw together, in these short preliminary remarks, the few quotations and notes appended by the Russian poet to his work.

  55. In all cases in which navies have been used for war there was the preliminary dispute, often long-continued, between two peoples or their rulers, and at last the decision of the dispute by force.

  56. To repel an expedition striving to establish a base in the Caribbean, preliminary to an attack on our Atlantic continental coast or on the Panama Canal.

  57. Alexander reaps the benefit of the preliminary labors of his father, Philip; William is made German Emperor by the toil of Moltke.

  58. Talking to her sometimes in English, sometimes in French, with preliminary instructions in German.

  59. After some preliminary arrangements, and late in the day, she set off upon a long walk to Miss Bezac's.

  60. The preliminary flour and cream and mixing in the bowl had been (culinary) Sanscrit to him.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preliminary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advanced; antecedent; anterior; arrangement; breakthrough; briefing; chief; debut; elementary; embarkation; equipment; experimental; exploratory; first; floating; flotation; foregoing; foremost; foundation; frontispiece; groundwork; headmost; inaugural; inauguration; induction; initiation; initiatory; installation; installment; introduction; introductory; launching; leading; leap; manufacture; mobilization; opener; original; overture; planning; postulate; preamble; prearrangement; preceding; precursory; preface; prefatory; prefix; preliminary; prelude; premise; prep; preparatory; prerequisite; presupposition; prior; processing; prologue; provision; training; treatment; trial; tryout; unveiling; verse; voluntary