foretell
verb (used with object)
to tell of beforehand; predict; prophesy.
will foretell
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future tenseof foretell.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Like the men’s squad, the women’s performance in the coming weeks will foretell whether it’s on the right path in 2022 — or in need of urgent repair.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2022
I will foretell the Governor, that he will have a large demand of ammunition, and let you know how much we are to depend upon, as far as I may guess from his answer.
From Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette
The one she touches will foretell her fate.
From Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk by Fanny D. (Fanny Dickerson) Bergen
There is nothing more like than two ages that are very like; which is all that Rousseau means by saying, "give him an account of any great metropolis, and he will foretell its fate."
From Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole
If your grace permits, I will foretell what will happen.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
