FOREGO in a Sentence

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24 example sentences for FOREGO, such as:

1. The foregoing helps to explain these results.
2. The foregoing examples illustrate this point.
3. Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.
4. I can testify to the foregoing since I was actually present when it happened.
5. The foregoing constituted the most difficult step that our hero had to negotiate.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOREGO
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
forego
 v.  precede; go ahead of; go forward; go on
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  Oh, you know, deuce take it,' said this gentleman, looking round the board with an imbecile smile, 'we can't forego Blood, you know.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 25. GOOD AND BAD ANGELS
2  I therefore pleaded another engagement; and observing that Mrs. Micawber's spirits were immediately lightened, I resisted all persuasion to forego it.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27. TOMMY TRADDLES
3  Happily Van Helsing has not summoned me, so I need not forego my sleep; to-night I could not well do without it.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  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
5  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
6  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
7  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
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  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
12  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
13  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
14  Such experiences as the foregoing were not uncommon in her married life.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In III
15  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
Example Sentence:
1  Because of the risks of the expedition, the team leader made sure to forego the climbers.
2  I can testify to the foregoing since I was actually present when it happened.
3  The foregoing helps to explain these results.
4  The foregoing examples illustrate this point.