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Example sentences for "foreshow"

Lexicographically close words:
foreshore; foreshorten; foreshortened; foreshortening; foreshortenings; foreshowed; foreshown; foreshows; foreside; foresight
  1. These sweet scented flowers foreshow an unexpected happiness with someone whom you have not seen for a long while.

  2. These foreshow attainment to honour, fame and wealth.

  3. These are a symbol of youth and innocence; this sign may point to some event affecting you and yours which will probably take place about February; if seen in a cross it would foreshow the death of an infant or young child.

  4. A visit from a dear friend; several pipes foreshow news from a man who is much in your thoughts.

  5. Kine (cattle) are said to foreshow rain when they lick their fore-feet, or lie on their right side.

  6. Fieldfares, when they arrive early, and in great numbers, in autumn, foreshow a hard winter, which has probably set in in the regions from which they have come.

  7. Toads, when they come from their holes in an unusual number in the evening, although the ground be still dry, foreshow the coming rain, which will generally fall more or less during the night.

  8. Urchins of the Sea, a sort of fish, when they thrust themselves into the mud, and try to cover their bodies with sand, foreshow a storm.

  9. Fishes, when they bite more readily, and gambol near the surface of streams or pools, foreshow rain.

  10. He is now bidden to foreshow the utter destruction of the Jewish polity by a symbolic act which is even more unambiguous than the language of the prayer.

  11. And what he has here written, it is important to bear in mind, when we are studying other passages of his writings and those of his predecessors, which foreshow judgments and mercies to individual peoples.

  12. And did the candle prognosticate, I mean foreshow his death?

  13. They foreshow people’s deaths, don’t they?

  14. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart.

  15. Defn: To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy.

  16. In a word, that they foreshow the progress, and final establishment of true christianity on earth; this being the Messiah's kingdom, or his spiritual reign.

  17. And that he might foreshow that he was to suffer for them, hear then how he appointed it.

  18. But if thou hurtest them, I foreshow ruin for thy ship and for thy men, and even though thou shouldest thyself escape, late shalt thou return in evil plight with the loss of all thy company.

  19. Two magpies are sure forerunners of good news; but a single one is supposed to foreshow tidings of the death of a friend.

  20. According to the ancients, the vulture possessed such olfactory powers, that it could foreshow the death of a person three days previous to his decease.

  21. To give predictions; to foreshow events; to prophesy.

  22. His faculties refer to natures out of him and predict the world he is to inhabit, as the fins of the fish foreshow that water exists, or the wings of an eagle in the egg presuppose air.

  23. Before that heaven which our presentiments foreshow us, we cannot easily praise any form of life we have seen or read of.

  24. A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future.

  25. When the joint growth of arms and arts foreshow The world a monarch, and that monarch you.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreshow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    announce; augur; betoken; bode; forebode; forerun; foreshadow; foreshow; foretell; harbinger; herald; omen; portend; predict; presage; shadow