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Example sentences for "foreshadow"

Lexicographically close words:
foresee; foreseeable; foreseeing; foreseen; foresees; foreshadowed; foreshadowing; foreshadowings; foreshadows; foresheet
  1. These suggestions, in the nature of a reform bill, foreshadow a condition of self-government in harmony with republican institutions.

  2. It was easy to foreshadow the construction which would be placed upon his conduct.

  3. On the contrary he recognizes that the world has grown old and already shows signs of decrepitude which foreshadow its ultimate destruction.

  4. They portend dissolution or they foreshadow new groupings for struggle over other issues on another plane.

  5. Because they were intended to foreshadow those who, though filled with the Holy Ghost, and adorned with His gifts and graces, had, nevertheless, evil dwelling in them.

  6. The types foreshadow it, the prophets prophesy of it, faith believes it, and hope anticipates it.

  7. The two loaves foreshadow believing Jews and Gentiles, which compose the church.

  8. The Passover lamb and the sheltering blood foreshadow most blessedly the atoning work of the Cross, the sacrifice of our Lord and His precious blood.

  9. The feast of trumpets does not foreshadow the Coming of the Lord for His Saints.

  10. The New Testament scenes are of course the usual series; those from the Old Testament foreshadow them, for which reason they are placed in the opposite from the chronological order.

  11. They foreshadow that feeling which makes too much modern sculpture attempt to catch the public by flinging away everything that is proper to the art.

  12. I go to find my lost and mourned for Safe in Thy sheltering goodness still, And all that hope and faith foreshadow Made perfect in Thy holy will!

  13. Their flight was considered to foreshadow evil to the royal family, and their reappearance was regarded as a happy omen.

  14. Dreams of darkness foreshadow loss of property and friends; but if the dreamer in his sleep emerge from the gloom into light, he may expect that he will rise above his difficulties, and become richer and happier.

  15. He died; but first applied for initiation to Eumolpus, in order to foreshadow that state of religious preparation which should precede the momentous change.

  16. Consequently the reasons for these observances may be taken in two ways, first according to their fittingness to the worship of God; secondly, according as they foreshadow something touching the Christian mode of life.

  17. Thirdly, it was fitting that these animals should be offered, that they might foreshadow Christ.

  18. And for this reason all the other sacrifices of the Old Law were offered up in order to foreshadow this one individual and paramount sacrifice--the imperfect forecasting the perfect.

  19. A figurative reason may also be found in the fact that the whole state of the first tabernacle was ordained to foreshadow the death of Christ, which is signified by the west, according to Ps.

  20. Divine worship; and a figurative or mystical cause, according as they were intended to foreshadow Christ: and on either hand the ceremonies pertaining to the sacrifices can be assigned to a fitting cause.

  21. In this way the ceremonial precepts are figurative; since they were instituted for the very purpose that they might foreshadow something relating to the worship of God and the mystery of Christ.

  22. Fourthly, in order to foreshadow the shedding of Christ's blood, and the abundance of His charity, whereby He offered Himself to God for us.

  23. Therefore there should also have been some sacraments of the Old Law to foreshadow the other sacraments of the New Law, such as Confirmation, Extreme Unction, and Matrimony, and so forth.

  24. Thus, again, the sea, and water and the cloud foreshadow the grace of baptism.

  25. Did not that flame foreshadow thee with its burning fire an image of the divine fire within thee?

  26. All previous judgments of nations as announced by God's prophets, nations which sinned against Israel the chosen people, foreshadow the one great day, when the times of the Gentiles end in the revealed manner (Dan.

  27. Both the feast of trumpets and the day of atonement foreshadow the regathering of Israel and the forgiveness of their sins.

  28. These visions, which concern Jerusalem's history and condition in the days of Ezekiel, also foreshadow Jerusalem's future.

  29. They foreshadow the turmoil which its emancipation from the fetters of religious orthodoxy will cast in the American, the European, the Asiatic and African continents.

  30. These foreshadow the fierceness of the onslaught that the resistless march of the Faith must provoke in the West, in India and in the Far East when it meets the time-honored sacerdotal orders of the Christian, the Buddhist and Hindu religions.

  31. In connection with this, earlier organic forms often appear to foreshadow and predict others that are to succeed them in time, as the winged and marine reptiles of the Mesozoic foreshadow the birds and cetaceans.

  32. I will not try to foreshadow the line of attack, though certain movements appear to indicate where it will be directed.

  33. This movement, seeming to foreshadow another retreat, sorely disquieted the troops, who were only reassured by the promise of a general onslaught from the other flank at no distant time.

  34. To foreshadow John Kane's reply to Flurry was a matter less simple.

  35. In France and England, expressions had been used by leading officials which appeared to foreshadow an early recognition of the Confederacy.

  36. It appeared in fact to foreshadow war with England.

  37. Keiser's music lacks the suavity of the Italian school, but his recitatives are vigorous and powerful, and seem to foreshadow the triumphs which the German school was afterwards to win in declamatory music.

  38. There are scenes in 'Don Carlos' which foreshadow the truth and freedom of 'Aida,' but their beauty is often marred by strange relapses into conventionality.

  39. It seemed to foreshadow that capability of reticence in Deronda that his imagination was much occupied with two women, to neither of whom would he have held it possible that he should ever make love.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreshadow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.