Example Sentences

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But there was foreshadowing of what was to come.

From Slate • Apr. 3, 2025

Maybe it was foreshadowing or a bit of a premonition.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 9, 2022

Despite these dire predictions being widely broadcast, the future that the science was foreshadowing seemed to be unavoidable.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2021

But adding John Denver’s “Rocky Mountain High” was foreshadowing the inevitable in that state.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2015

Certainly in this he was foreshadowing the policy followed by his successors for more than a century.

From Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson