foreshadows in English

verb

1

be a warning or indication of (a future event).

it foreshadowed my preoccupation with jazz

synonyms: signal, indicate, signify, mean, be a sign of, suggest, herald, be a harbinger of, warn of, portend, prefigure, presage, promise, point to, anticipate, spell, forebode, foretoken, betoken, adumbrate, foreshow

verb

• signal, indicate, signify, mean, be a sign of, suggest, herald, be a harbinger of, warn of, portend, prefigure, presage, promise, point to, anticipate, spell, forebode, foretoken, betoken, adumbrate, foreshow
• prognosticate, betoken, omen, forecast, foretell, portend, bode, augur, prefigure, predict, auspicate, presage

Use "foreshadows" in a sentence

1. This ugly term foreshadows uncertain consequences.

2. This group of woodcut prints foreshadows the horrors that were to come.

3. Synonyms for Antecedes include foregoes, antedates, precedes, predates, preexists, foreruns, goes before, comes before, anticipates and foreshadows

4. 1 In Washington, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles foreshadows America's long and costly involvement in Vietnam during the next two decades.

5. Petersburg (Russian: Петербург, Peterbúrg) is a novel by Russian writer Andrei Bely.A Symbolist [citation needed] work, it arguably foreshadows James Joyce's Modernist ambitions

6. Its parodies of Tudor speech lapse sometimes into a callow satisfaction in that idiom—Mark hugely enjoys his nathlesses and Beshrews and marrys.” The writing of 1601 foreshadows his fondness for this treatment.

7. Usage Note: Baleful and Baneful overlap in meaning, but baleful usually applies to something that is menacing or foreshadows evil: a baleful look.Baneful most often describes that which is actually harmful or destructive: Baneful effects of their foreign policy.

8. To say that an event or occurrence Augurs well for the future means that it is a sign or promise of good things to come—that it foreshadows that things will go well, as in These clear skies Augur well for our chances of holding the parade.

9. To say that an event or occurrence Augurs well for the future means that it is a sign or promise of good things to come—that it foreshadows that things will go well, as in These clear skies augur well for our chances of holding the parade.