lead-in

How To Use lead-in In A Sentence

• Men is unlike anything else on TNT, and needed a more powerful lead-in than the puerile Franklin & Bash to sell it to a mainstream audience. Ask Matt: Midseason TV, Emmys, The Good Wife, Glee, Jesse Stone and More!
• The spin on the spin: Helped by an MLB lead-in, as Fox moved the final innings of Yankees-Red Sox to its FX cable channel to make way for the race. Selected weekend TV ratings and news
• The preliminary safety findings that have been realised by the DSMB do seem to indicate that the cardiovascualar effects, which were analysed as being pretty minor in the preliminary analyses from the lead-in period that have been published, do have a clinically significant negative effect in the long term. Dr. Sharma’s Obesity Notes » Blog Archive » Sibutramine Suspended in Europe
• The ideal lead-in would be arguing with a Republican on some political chatfest, say who trots out some version of the American people really want... Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Class Warfare? Hardly.
• It has been a convention, if we are talking about conventions, that members are allowed a lead-in to a debate.
• Migration of students' knowledge is relative to methods of lead-in, mastery-degree of anterior knowledge, relations of new knowledge and anterior knowledge.
• The lead-in time would allow directors bring themselves up to speed on the requirements of the bill.
• It's a powerful transition, and a smooth lead-in to characters who are now young men, 15 years later.
• (Potteries usage)Incidentally, in the lead-in to the Elmes quote, the word minging is used; for those who, like myself, were wondering how it's pronounced, it rhymes with singing and is Scots in origin, meaning (according to the OED) That smells bad, stinking; (more generally) unpleasant, foul. Languagehat.com: WORD 4 WORD.
• Enjoying a ratings boost this spring thanks to its Dancing With the Stars lead-in, this enjoyable light mystery swaps coasts as Detective Beckett goes rogue, defying orders as she heads from New York to L.A. where the Heat Wave movie based on Castle's books is in production to find the killer of her former partner. Matt's Picks: May 2-5