It frets me for my country forenent them Scotch and English.
She howkit a grave forenent the sun, And there she buried her twa babes in.
Thou howkit a grave forenent the sun, And there thou buried thy twa babes in.
And there and then he picked twelve lusty savages for his guard, while the rest without a cheep stacked their spears and gunsforenent the big drum.
Never a word we spoke, but just jogged on with our chins cocked up till we were forenent the big drum, where yon old scoundrel Umgazi was standing with his young men looking as black as sin.
They've grippit Maister McCunn up the Mains road just afore the second milestone and forenent the auld bucht.
I was up a tree forenent the verandy and seen them.
Hearing this, he coolly replied, "Then bad luck to them, after all the trouble we have had in building and completing that sweet eight-gun battery forenent yonder.
Set a souldier to rowing on the lake forenent the rising sun, with orders to get to the other ind, and a pretty job he 'd make of marching on that same!
Nick and I had our business forenent us, and when a man is hurried, it isn't r'asonable to suppose he can kape turning his head about to see sights.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forenent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
