FORESHADOW in a Sentence

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1. In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural, vanished.
2. The friend who knew most of Eva's own imaginings and foreshadowings was her faithful bearer, Tom.

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 Meanings and Examples of FORESHADOW
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foreshadow
 v.  give indication beforehand; indicate by signs
Classic Sentence:
1  In this foreshadowing interval too, all humor, forced or natural, vanished.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
2  The friend who knew most of Eva's own imaginings and foreshadowings was her faithful bearer, Tom.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
3  Herself, they prophesied, she should be glorious in fame and fortune; but a great war was foreshadowed for her people.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
Example Sentence:
1  Political analysts realized that Yeltsin's defiance of the attempted coup should foreshadow his emergence as the dominant figure of the new Russian republic.