How to Use foresee in a Sentence

foresee

verb
  • He foresees a day when all war will cease.
  • We couldn't have foreseen the consequences of our actions.
  • She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.
  • Few, though, could have foreseen this type of start for the Dodgers.
    Jack Harris, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • At that point, even Smith couldn’t foresee what was to come.
    Hayes Gardner, The Courier-Journal, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2025
  • But who could foresee that the coronavirus would sweep the world?
    Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Rogers and Eicher don’t foresee an end date to this work.
    Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 40 mph and marble-sized hail (0.5 inches).
    Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Many foresee a net loss of jobs in December for the first time since April.
    Christopher Rugaber and Casey Smith, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020
  • And that's something that 25 years ago this week none of us could have foreseen or even dared to hope for.
    EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
  • Right now, can anyone in his right mind foresee that in the near future?
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • There were so many challenges that could not be foreseen.
    Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2025
  • But soldiers on the front line do not foresee any letup.
    Carlotta Gall, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2022
  • No one could have foreseen that the pause would still be in effect three years later.
    Delyanne Barros, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • But the Sipekne’katik First Nation chief did not foresee the violence to come.
    Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2020
  • We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • This might help the fight off the existential threat foreseen for Europe at the hands of the Chinese.
    Neil Winton, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • What the fan couldn’t have foreseen was the head coach hearing him and then sharply responding.
    Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Wind gusts of up to 50 mph and marble-sized hail (0.5 inches) are foreseen.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Wind gusts of up to 40 mph and marble-sized hail (0.5 inches) are foreseen.
    Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Apr. 2025
  • No researchers foresee a return to the worst days of the pandemic.
    Apoorva Mandavilli, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Some of what has befallen them shouldn’t have been hard to foresee.
    Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The founders certainly didn’t foresee the war machines guns are now.
    Thembi Ford, Essence, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Right from his early tests out on the boat in Long Beach with Mann, Beebe could foresee the massive challenges.
    Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 13 Aug. 2024
  • But this loss was a tribulation no one could have foreseen.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2024
  • Sure enough, as Graves had foreseen, in August of last year the judge sided with the Latino plaintiffs.
    Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 28 Feb. 2024
  • Hard to foresee them cruising back to AFC South's summit.
    Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 23 July 2019
  • However, the researchers hope to develop a wireless version and foresee many applications for the device.
    New Atlas, 5 May 2025
  • Nobody at the Rijksmuseum could have foreseen the cultural ground shifting so rapidly underfoot.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 25 Apr. 2025

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