How to Use foreshadow in a Sentence

foreshadow

verb

• The hero's predicament is foreshadowed in the first chapter.
• Her early interest in airplanes foreshadowed her later career as a pilot.
• For some of them, the new rules foreshadow more bad news to come.
  — Sharyn Jackson, Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• The arrival of a wasp at the table foreshadows what’s to come.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2023
• The changes are modest and don’t foreshadow a crisis any time soon.
  — Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• One of those foreshadowed what would happen later on the show.
  — Dave Quinn, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
• Did these plays foreshadow a leap forward from the safety pair?
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2021
• Such a move seems to foreshadow one or more moves throughout the secondary in the draft.
  — Jourdan Rodrigue, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
• So is there any way to foreshadow or predict whether the rulings will be drastic?
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 2 Mar. 2023
• Or does the breath of the chill foreshadow a grim fate for our engaging, if hapless, hero?
  — Literary Hub, 6 Oct. 2025
• That's a whole lot of time for the press corps to foreshadow the presser and sharpen questions.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
• And that would be a result foreshadowed by few of the country's pollsters.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
• The move may well foreshadow the end of Hernández’s time with the Rangers.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
• The home, as foreshadowed in the previous episodes, is on the market.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 June 2018
• All of this comes to a head in a dark night of the soul that is foreshadowed in the season’s opening moments.
  — Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 6 Mar. 2025
• Hungary was the race that foreshadowed their rivalry one year ago.
  — Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
• City officials have foreshadowed for months that the changes could be coming.
  — Rose Evans april 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Apr. 2026
• The trip also foreshadowed the princess' devoted work to the sick.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Sep. 2018
• In retrospect, this sounds like foreshadowing … or at least a good omen.
  — Jen Chaney, Vulture, 26 June 2026
• Those rules foreshadowed the sweeping approach now poised to become law.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• And who is the opposite force that Breezy foreshadowed?
  — Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
• This act of violence, in hindsight, foreshadowed what was to come.
  — Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
• Unfortunately for the home team, that fate foreshadowed what was to come the rest of the way.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• An early arrival of the new guidelines had been foreshadowed.
  — Sarah Todd, STAT, 7 Jan. 2026
• His background foreshadows working with his hands.
  — Patrick Z. McGavin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• Some believed the phrase was meant to foreshadow the fate of the Stark family.
  — Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 22 June 2018
• Of course, this could foreshadow a move to hire Brian Flores as head coach.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2023
• So far, neither side is showing signs of backing down, foreshadowing a fight that could take years.
  — Andy Mannix, ProPublica, 25 Mar. 2026
• That foreshadowed unrest in the Senate later in the day and night.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
• The interest in Lacy could foreshadow what's to come in the second round.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2020