foreshadowing

[ UK /fɔːʃˈædə‍ʊɪŋ/ ]
[ US /fɔɹˈʃædoʊɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. indistinctly prophetic
NOUN
  1. the act of providing vague advance indications; representing beforehand
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How To Use foreshadowing In A Sentence

  • Who needs six minutes worth of foreshadowing, ambient noise and one-chord riffing when you could surge straight into a noise as glorious as this?
  • I personally believe the gods used the most favored people from the Mediterreanean and western Europe to accomplish this goal that was the Holocaust for multiple purposes::::::: Defiance clue, acted as desensitizer, foreshadowing, disposed of Jewish-European clue, etc. Saturday morning rant (story v language)
  • The nation-wide railway strike of 1974 was repressed violently, foreshadowing things to come the following year.
  • Shopkeepers board up their windows, plastic bags tumble across the road, a few warning drops smatter the ground foreshadowing the deluge sure to follow. First Rains « Cameroon
  • That's called 'cryptic foreshadowing,' " Ashley gasped. The Horror Movie That Was Only in My Head
  • While I don't share in idolizing the book by so many horror fans, I would be a fool not to recognize a quality piece of storytelling when I see it The foreshadowing is so expertly laid out the book deserves to be read solely to examine that. Rabid Reads: "Ghost Story" by Peter Straub
  • Too much foreshadowing, or am I just overanalyzing? Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Marie Clairvoyance
  • In an ironic foreshadowing of a pivotal courtroom scene that will put Janie at the mercy of human vultures, the hungry buzzards focus on the ‘yaller’ mule.
  • The first time I experienced being "uptight" was in tenth grade, when my older sister (a college sophomore) took me and my three girlfriends to see "Grease" at the Wang Center in Boston (wang! foreshadowing!) Giulia Rozzi: Nicola Briggs Is My Kinda Gal
  • I guess since the Samfans have started their whining, I may as well air a concern as well ... given that a large number of episodes this season have had the theme "Monsters are only bad because hunters are mean and force them to do bad things", is this foreshadowing that the blame for Sam's "darkside" fall (such as it is, and it hasn't been much darker than ecru thus far) is gonna be dumped on Dean ... the "mean", "racist" hunter in his life? Undefined
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