Sample Sentences for
foreshadow
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    She thinks the special elections foreshadow a big victory for her party in November.
    foreshadow = are a sign of
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    "Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge.  (source)
    foreshadow = be a sign of (future events)
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    It was only a snapshot but for a sense of foreshadowing, of transience and doom, no master of Dutch genre painting could have set up the composition more skillfully.  (source)
    foreshadowing = being a sign of future events
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    When my grandmother was still alive we would visit her, and even though I was no more than six, I remember thinking: I hope I die young. There's a definition of irony for you, Mrs. Harbor. Or maybe foreshadowing?  (source)
    foreshadowing = a sign of future events
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    It was only after a decade of national wars, civil wars, revolutions, and counter-revolutions in all parts of the world that Ingsoc and its rivals emerged as fully worked-out political theories. But they had been foreshadowed by the various systems, generally called totalitarian, which had appeared earlier...  (source)
    foreshadowed = indicated (hinted at or made predictable)
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    I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.  (source)
    foreshadow = indicate (act as a sign of)
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    One has all the best of the past, the other foreshadows a better future; and the men who wrote them are the only men who have written of the subject with that perfect frankness and perfect knowledge and perfect poise whose other name is genius.†  (source)
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    The friend who knew most of Eva's own imaginings and foreshadowings was her faithful bearer, Tom.†  (source)
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    Like most deaths on Yamacraw, it came with unforeshadowed swiftness; there was no lingering or gradual wasting away or bedside farewells.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unforeshadowed means not and reverses the meaning of foreshadowed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    "The Death Wish song 'Judgment Day' includes a frightening foreshadowing of an event that became all too real in Sterling, New Hampshire, yesterday morning," Curry said.  (source)
    foreshadowing = being a sign (of something that will happen in the future)
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    He was co-writing a book with William Shatner (a. k. a. Kirk) about how scientific breakthroughs first imagined on Star Trek foreshadowed today's technological advancements.  (source)
    foreshadowed = were indications of
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    'Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead.†  (source)
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    Only as it foreshadows her future.†  (source)
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