foreshadow
verb (used with object)
Origin of foreshadow
Related Words for foreshadowing
prefigure, predict, portend, imply, foretell, augur, presage, omen, hint, suggest, signal, betoken, adumbrate, forebode, promise, shadow, bode, prophesy, telegraphExamples from the Web for foreshadowing
Contemporary Examples of foreshadowing
In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.
“The spoon was a tool for foreshadowing,” the Facebook page explains.
In a foreshadowing of things to come, I learned that Africa is always changing.
The rise of the yeoman class in Britain was particularly critical in foreshadowing the evolution of America.
Foreshadowing her intentions, the forty-seven-year-old gave the boy a signed first edition of the titillating tale.
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February 13, 2014
Historical Examples of foreshadowing
There must have been a foreshadowing in her soul of the man's reliability, though she knew it not.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
Diana watched this foreshadowing of tragedy with tight lips, pale cheeks.
Mistress WildingRafael Sabatini
This is no mere jest, but a foreshadowing of Pietro Aretino.
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in ItalyJacob Burckhardt
I asked, wondering at my indifference to this foreshadowing of triumph.
The Plum TreeDavid Graham Phillips
Before I knew the history of the saints, I had a foreshadowing of their ecstasy.
RomolaGeorge Eliot