INTRODUCTORY in a Sentence

Learn INTRODUCTORY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for INTRODUCTORY, such as:

1. Forgetting the introductory remarks really mortified me.
2. The booklist at the end of the chapter contains some introductory reading on the subject.

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 Meanings and Examples of INTRODUCTORY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
introductory
 a.  serving as an introduction or preface
 a.  serving as a base or starting point
Classic Sentence:
1  We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXI
2  He was aroused from this reverie by his friend, who, having hitched about nervously and blinked at the trees for a time, suddenly coughed in an introductory way, and spoke.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
Example Sentence:
1  The booklist at the end of the chapter contains some introductory reading on the subject.
2  Forgetting the introductory remarks really mortified me.
3  The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes, and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray.