How to Use forerunner in a Sentence

forerunner

noun

• I had that strange feeling that's the forerunner of a cold.
• The crest was a forerunner to the Stars and Stripes flag.
  — Sylvia Hui, USA TODAY, 11 June 2022
• So, yes, in a strange way, yes: The (Chuck E. Cheese) band were forerunners.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• But were there no forerunners, no hints of what was just about to come?
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
• The Legge family crest, a forerunner to the Stars and Stripes flag.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
• But at the time, the Magic were considered the forerunners of the top-gunners.
  — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 June 2018
• Yes, the forerunner of the shotgun could hit its target.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
• The Wolf Prize is considered one of the forerunners to a Nobel Prize.
  — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
• This summer, the forerunner for the It Shoe is the rather unexpected mesh flat.
  — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 13 June 2023
• Clovis is also a forerunner of the most regal of French names: Louis.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 16 June 2022
• Google is desperate not to make the same mistakes as its forerunner.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
• Under his rule, the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB, was responsible for a wave of terror.
  — Vanessa Gera, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2022
• The forerunner in this event since his world championship title in 2017, Warholm now has an Olympic medal to show for his efforts.
  — Rebecca Saunders, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
• That was the precursor, the forerunner for tutoring in the public school.
  — Barnett Wright, al, 17 Jan. 2022
• China must take America as a forerunner of what is to come.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Sauropodomorphs were an evolutionary forerunner to a group called sauropods known for long necks and tails and four pillar-like legs.
  — Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
• First came a forerunner of the saw in 1928, which looks remarkably like today’s product.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
• Their first restaurant, City Cafe, opened in 1981, was a forerunner in global-minded menus.
  — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• Over 1,400 soldiers will take part in the review, which is a forerunner to the Trooping the Colour parade that takes place the following weekend.
  — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
• The store was an early membership-only store, a forerunner to Costco and Sam's Club, that closed in 1971.
  — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
• The original Bloodrock was more of a forerunner of heavy metal.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2021
• Dry goods stores, the forerunner of department stores, flourished too.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
• Konrad Theodor Preuss, a curator at the forerunner of the museum, had bought them on a research trip to Colombia in 1915.
  — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
• The initiative narrowly passed and was a forerunner to one of the most defining events in L.A. history.
  — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
• Savage cost-cutting and a nose for the next big thing, in this case smaller cars and minivans, forerunners of the craze for SUVs, returned Chrysler to bumper profits.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• The turnout was so large that the group moved to create a more permanent location: a forerunner of the Chinatown Health Clinic.
  — Alexandra Tatarsky, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• But unlike her forerunners, Al-Sharif recorded it all and uploaded it to YouTube.
  — Rafia Zakaria, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
• The transcripts can be read in the Congressional Globe, a forerunner to the Congressional Record.
  — Steven Portnoy, ABC News, 29 Dec. 2023
• Jonathan Cohen Ride — Interplay Ride were forerunners in the ‘90s shoegazer scene, but blazed out too quickly.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 3 June 2024
• There definitely were no muppets during the Permian Period, but there was a Kermit - or at least a forerunner of modern amphibians that has been named after the celebrity frog.
  — Fox News, 22 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Sep 2024