Example Sentences

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When she has audio calls, she forewarns her colleagues she might lose connection.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

A frozen opening shot of the exterior of a luxury California home forewarns of the tedium to come.

From New York Times • Mar. 18, 2022

Lawrence forewarns readers of his travel writing from Italy.

From Washington Post • Sep. 2, 2021

Carl Safina makes a strong case for the supremacy of “Moby-Dick” as a novel in which Herman Melville forewarns of the errors that civilization may make.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2020

“My brother wears one in a ring. And as he’s a sea captain, the opal forewarns him of ocean storms. He says it has never been wrong.”

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan