foretell
verb (used with object)
to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
was foretelling
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past progressiveof foretell.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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One of the travellers, a squint-eyed ill-favoured fellow, was foretelling that more and more people would be coming north in the near future.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
I was foretelling of my two callings - as lawyer and poet - and which sayest thou now bears greatest resemblance, whether a lawyer to a raven, or a poet to a whale?
From The Visions of the Sleeping Bard by Robert Gwyneddon Davies
The French," he cried in January, while Pitt was foretelling a glorious future for the new Constitution, "the French have shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin who have hitherto existed in the world.
From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by John Richard Green
When the angel was foretelling to Mary the birth of the Holy Child, he said, 'The Lord God shall give Him the throne of His father David.'
From Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern by James Edward Talmage
Beriah's pet idee was foretelling what the weather was going to be.
From Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
