I think truly there was not much sleep for Margaret, even as she said, for did not I hear her moving, and I would be thinking of her turning and twisting fornent the image-glass.
We came up over the last of the three lonely hills, with bare moorlands and peat hagsfornent us, and away below the sea, and I held on for the house on the moor that once was McCurdy's hut.
He looked up, and just fornent him there sat on his haunches a comely-looking greyhound.
An' the reek frae yer fore pairts as ye staund fornent the lowe--ne'er mind the drap toddy-come awa!
They wadna ken their ain parritch gin ye didna haud the spune fornent their nebs.
Well, I laid the gun upon the dresser, drew a stool, an' sits down fornent the miser.
The foundations were marked out, and the building stones lying about, but the masons had not come yet; and one day I was standing with my mother fornent the house, when we sees a smart wee woman coming up the field over the burn to us.
Go over to the Lough, and tell Joseph that he must change the foundation of this house to where I’ll show you fornent the thorn-bush.
It seems terrible silly, and it would be awful if the hero come on a minute or two late and the girl was ate up fornent your eyes!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fornent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
