FOREGOING in a Sentence

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For FOREGOING, below is one of 24 sentences:
However, in spite of the distressfulness of the foregoing possibilities, it is time that I returned to my hero.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOREGOING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
foregoing
 v.  do without or cease to hold or adhere to
 v.  lose (s.th.) or lose the right to (s.th.) by some error, offense, or crime
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  That the foregoing represents pretty much the gist of Chichikov's reflections as he stood watching the company I will not attempt to deny.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
2  However, in spite of the distressfulness of the foregoing possibilities, it is time that I returned to my hero.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
3  However, the laws of Russian hospitality do not permit even of a miser infringing their rules; wherefore Plushkin added to the foregoing a more civil invitation to be seated.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  Whilst the foregoing conversation had been in progress, various witnesses had been arriving on the scene.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  At the same time, it is never a very safe proceeding to peer deeply into the hearts of ladies; wherefore, restricting ourselves to the foregoing superficialities, let us proceed further on our way.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
6  To the foregoing, of course, there became appended various additional proofs and items of evidence, in proportion as the sensation spread to more remote corners of the town.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IX
7  The foregoing constituted the most difficult step that our hero had to negotiate.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
8  The foregoing will give the reader a pretty clear idea of the manner in which it was possible for this man of thirty-three to waste his time.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
9  Soon to the foregoing trees there became added an occasional birch or spruce fir, while in the dense undergrowth around their roots could be seen the blue iris and the yellow wood-tulip.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
10  There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
11  Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
12  He was no doubt prepared for any emergency, ready for any one of the foregoing attitudes, just as he bent himself easily and naturally to the situation which confronted him.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
13  During the foregoing address the progress of the speaker was too plainly read by those most interested in his success through the medium of the countenances of the men he addressed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
14  Mr. Bumble turned, and encountered the face of his interesting consort, who, imperfectly comprehending the few words she had overheard of his complaint, had hazarded the foregoing remark at a venture.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
15  The performance was that of bringing together and building into a stack the furze faggots which Humphrey had been cutting for the captain's use during the foregoing fine days.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer
Example Sentence:
1  I can testify to the foregoing since I was actually present when it happened.
2  The foregoing helps to explain these results.
3  The foregoing examples illustrate this point.
4  Because of the risks of the expedition, the team leader made sure to forego the climbers.