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Example sentences for "foreshows"

Lexicographically close words:
foreshortening; foreshortenings; foreshow; foreshowed; foreshown; foreside; foresight; foresighted; foreskin; foreskins
  1. Something which foreshows or portends a future event; a prognostic; an omen; an augury.

  2. For young people to dream of wandering through the silent avenues of the dead foreshows they will meet with tender and loving responses from friends, but will have to meet sorrows that friends are powerless to avert.

  3. For young persons to dream of giving charity, foreshows they will be annoyed by deceitful rivals.

  4. For a young woman to dream of mining coal, foreshows she will become the wife of a real-estate dealer or dentist.

  5. For a woman to dream that night overtakes her in a graveyard, and she can find no place to sleep but in an open grave, foreshows she will have much sorrow and disappointment through death or false friends.

  6. The duke before all those which had or charge Or office high, the letter read, and said: "See how the goodness of the Lord foreshows The secret purpose of our crafty foes.

  7. To a man, this foreshows popularity and a successful public career; to a woman, social success, a large following of friends and admirers, and power of gaining her own ends.

  8. This is symbolic of the wheel of fortune and foreshows a prosperous career or an inheritance of wealth; a broken wheel predicts a bad disappointment as to an expected increase of income or a legacy.

  9. This sign must be read in connection with other symbols; sometimes it foreshows grief and mourning, or if dots are round it, that a sum of money or a legacy may be expected from a widow.

  10. The spray of poppies on the circle beneath the handle foreshows that a pleasant experience may be expected in the summer.

  11. The child playing with its toys foreshows future pleasant plans which will result in tranquillity and satisfaction.

  12. The figure of the man fishing from a rock foreshows the arrival of a visitor, who will have some pleasant news to tell.

  13. This foreshows indisposition or a small illness, sometimes disturbed nights or emergencies.

  14. A symbol of luck, presents, success in new work or enterprise; sometimes it foreshows the arrival of a visitor.

  15. The return of an absent friend after a long absence; if it is running, a journey is indicated; a dead hare foreshows money acquired through industry.

  16. An open box foreshows a troubled love affair; a closed box, that you will find something which you had lost.

  17. This foreshows a time of pleasure and a time of pain.

  18. This is an unpleasant indication that ugly rumours and scandal will be spread about you or yours; sometimes public notoriety; with other signs, it foreshows grief and pain.

  19. This predicts that you will take a small risk and achieve a great success; to lovers, it foreshows a quarrel and possibly a broken engagement.

  20. This foreshows news of disturbance in India or news of a personal nature which will cause anxiety.

  21. This animal foreshows triumph over adverse circumstances or an evil report; two leopards, fortune and misfortune following each other in quick succession.

  22. This denotes misfortune, bad luck; if it is crooked or bending it foreshows a coming disaster or crushing blow to your hope.

  23. The fire that, once extinct, revived again, Foreshows the love allotted to remain: 280 Farewell!


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