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 move may well foreshadow the end of Hernández’s time with the Rangers.
    Evan Grant, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The song also foreshadows what’s to come in Becky’s life.
    Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
  • That foreshadowed unrest in the Senate later in the day and night.
    Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Some believed the phrase was meant to foreshadow the fate of the Stark family.
    Jennifer Earl, Fox News, 22 June 2018
  • So much like the poster foreshadowed, in this week’s Episode 7, Juliette takes a dive.
    Hunter Ingram, Variety, 27 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Seeds of the tea party The Perot movement foreshadowed the rise of the tea party in 2010.
    Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 9 July 2019
  • The home, as foreshadowed in the previous episodes, is on the market.
    Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 7 June 2018
  • But the empire’s decline in the 1400s may have been foreshadowed by Koh Ker’s demise.
    Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Jon's, Sansa's, and Arya's—show them at their current ages and foreshadow all three of their deaths.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Jan. 2019
  • The trip also foreshadowed the princess' devoted work to the sick.
    Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 25 Sep. 2018
  • Hobbs foreshadowed the bills and the policies proposed in them during her State of the State speech on Jan. 8.
    Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • That's a whole lot of time for the press corps to foreshadow the presser and sharpen questions.
    Oliver Darcy, CNN, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Yabut seemed to foreshadow the theft and chase in Twitter posts Tuesday.
    Washington Post, 6 June 2018
  • The interest in Lacy could foreshadow what's to come in the second round.
    Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 11 June 2020
  • Unfortunately for the home team, that fate foreshadowed what was to come the rest of the way.
    Tyler Horka, SI.com, 21 Apr. 2018
  • Brown kicked off her summer in the RV in May, and foreshadowed her lack of free time to use the mobile living space.
    Sam Burros, Peoplemag, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Before the race, Lewis foreshadowed who deserved blame is the U.S. didn’t win.
    Bruce Haring, Deadline, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The changes are modest and don’t foreshadow a crisis any time soon.
    Greg Ip, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Made in 2007, the film foreshadows the eventual blowback of the U.S. support of the mujahideen.
    Keith Staskiewicz, EW.com, 26 June 2024
  • The Heat scored an almost unfathomable 74 points in the paint, foreshadowing many of the problems the Magic would have the rest of the year.
    Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 18 Oct. 2017
  • And that would be a result foreshadowed by few of the country's pollsters.
    David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • One of those foreshadowed what would happen later on the show.
    Dave Quinn, People.com, 19 Nov. 2024
  • Facebook posts claimed the outbreak had been foreshadowed by a 1981 Dean Koontz book.
    Todd C. Frankel, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Mott on Sunday morning had foreshadowed skipping the Preakness in the name of long-term interests.
    Ryan Morik, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2025
  • Perry also pointed out the first film Easter eggs that even Eagle-eyed fans may have missed, including clues that foreshadow the deaths of several key characters.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 16 May 2025

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