FORESEE in a Sentence

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29 example sentences for FORESEE, such as:

1. Local Republican leaders foresee Bush nomination.
2. He appeared to foresee all, to divine all, to anticipate all.
3. I've put your name on the list and I don't foresee any problems.
4. It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one.
5. It is difficult to foresee the consequences that may arise from this action.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORESEE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
foresee
 v.  anticipate; predict
Classic Sentence: (25 in 2 pages)
1  It was possible to foresee that the coming winter would be a hard one.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
2  We shall be down there, a few hours before, but shall require rest: especially the young lady, who may have greater need of firmness than either you or I can quite foresee just now.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  His genius and ardour had seemed to foresee and to command his prosperous path.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
4  How the long stage would pass; how it was to affect their manners; what was to be their sort of intercourse, she could not foresee.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
5  My dear fellow," said he, "Holmes, with all his wisdom, did not foresee some things which have happened since I have been on the moor.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
6  The shocks of youthful minds among themselves have this admirable property, that one can never foresee the spark, nor divine the lightning flash.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER V—ENLARGEMENT OF HORIZON
7  Marius had already seen too much of life not to know that nothing is more imminent than the impossible, and that what it is always necessary to foresee is the unforeseen.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V—END OF THE VERSES OF JEAN PROUVAIRE
8  Monsieur, I love men of your kidney; and I foresee plainly that if we don't kill each other, I shall hereafter have much pleasure in your conversation.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
9  He appeared to foresee all, to divine all, to anticipate all.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 58 ESCAPE
10  I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52
11  I was superstitious about dreams then, and am still; and Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect, that made me dread something from which I might shape a prophecy, and foresee a fearful catastrophe.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
12  Hawkeye, though too much accustomed to Indian artifices not to foresee the danger of the experiment, knew not well how to combat this sudden resolution.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 22
13  There was no deep insight into causes and effects necessary to foresee that such a situation of things was likely to prove highly prejudicial to their future movements.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28
14  I foresee I shall surprise you,' began Arkady, pulling himself together again with an effort, 'especially since this feeling relates in a way.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
15  The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
Example Sentence:
1  Local Republican leaders foresee Bush nomination.
2  Given the current wave of Japan-bashing, it does not take prescience for me to foresee problems in our future trade relations with Japan.
3  It is difficult to foresee the consequences that may arise from this action.
4  I've put your name on the list and I don't foresee any problems.