[ UK /fɔːʃˈædə‍ʊ/ ]
[ US /fɔɹˈʃædoʊ/ ]
VERB
  1. indicate, as with a sign or an omen
    These signs bode bad news
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How To Use foreshadow In A Sentence

  • What we see in the process of fecundation is a foreshadowing of the future man and woman. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
  • One day there came a note from the editor requiring me to write ten pages on this revolting text: "Considerations concerning the alleged subterranean holophotal extemporaneousness of the conchyliaceous superimbrication of the Ornithorhyncus, as foreshadowed by the unintelligibility of its plesiosaurian anisodactylous aspects. Mark Twain`s speeches; with an introduction by William Dean Howells.
  • It should be clear by now that the ambiguity of form and complexity of content in Seven Pillars are both foreshadowed in its dedicatory poem.
  • One of the ways in which this foreshadowing of Agnes's death is expressed in the poem is through the swan imagery so deeply embedded in the poem's figural texture.
  • Of course to do it really well there should be some foreshadowing, but if done really well the foreshadowing is there but not noticed on the first play through. Big Trouble For Dangerous High School Girls
  • Or, as in the Brezhnev period, they were so emendated in a cretinized two-volume edition of Tkachev's works (in whose introduction the Soviet editors also criticized me and my book on Tkachev ” the first in English about him) as to be unrecognizable ” either as essential Tkachevism or as examples of proto-Bolshevism foreshadowing Lenin's ideology. Lenin & 'The Radiant Future'
  • Dr. Moreau’s on madness, which he read during these months of mental relaxation, drew from him an acknowledgment wherein he foreshadowed his intention of studying anatomy and myology. Balzac
  • Mr Darling foreshadowed the move last night when he said that both national and international regulators needed additional powers to help to restore confidence in the system. Times, Sunday Times
  • Tempter," answered Redlaw, "whose hollow look and voice I dread more than words can express, and from whom some dim foreshadowing of greater fear is stealing over me while I speak, I hear again an echo of my own mind. The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
  • Mr Darling foreshadowed the move last night when he said that both national and international regulators needed additional powers to help to restore confidence in the system. Times, Sunday Times
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