foretaste

How To Use foretaste In A Sentence

• In small ways that sometimes seem ineffectual, my friends and I are looking to experience some foretaste of that moment. Christianity Today
• ‘It was a foreshadowing of heaven, a foretaste of the splendours that were to come,’ says Sarah.
• Here is a foretaste of things to come - a previous encounter displaying wonderful fighting chess. Times, Sunday Times
• Having ceased to be the refuge of the hunted and the cynosure of the oppressed, this country would thenceforth awe the nations of the Old World by its military power, and shock them by its profligacy, whereof the Ostend Circular and the murders and forgeries of Kansas were but foretastes, until God in His righteous wrath should bring upon it some visitation like the present, and hurl it from its pinnacle in mercy to mankind. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
• Or is it a meager, yet expressive hint that the forgiveness of sins is a foretaste of eternal life?
• But I find it too easy, almost natural, to become so immersed in that reality that I lose sight of the small consolations and foretastes of glory that ordinary life also offers. Archive 2006-04-01
• The past tense implies at the same time the certainty of it, as also that in this life a kind of foretaste in Christ is already given [Grotius] (Jer 6: 16; Mt 11: 28, 29). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
• In small ways that sometimes seem ineffectual, my friends and I are looking to experience some foretaste of that moment. Christianity Today
• Before he reaches the station called Niagara Falls, the tourist has a foretaste of what is in store for him. American Sketches 1908
• She should suffer, too — and the foretasted anguish and pleasure of hot recriminations dulled all other feelings in him. Maurice Guest