How to Use foreshadowing in a Sentence

foreshadowing

noun

• This hand off was a foreshadowing of the Browns’ run game Sunday night.
  — cleveland, 29 Nov. 2021
• This doesn’t mean anything right now, but trust me, the foreshadowing is great.
  — Rachel Paige, refinery29.com, 31 July 2020
• This is a foreshadowing of what can happen in other forms down the line.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
• What happened with Jon Rahm in golf over the weekend, could be a foreshadowing of Tokyo.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2021
• This season there was more foreshadowing of who the killers were than there has been in other seasons.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2023
• Try not to think of this song as a hype morsel, or a discourse starter, or an aesthetic foreshadowing.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 21 June 2022
• Others point to the foreshadowing in the series’ first episode, when John kills a horse, which many believe symbolizes the land.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
• What an apt bit of foreshadowing, because after a relaxed night, the next morning is all about the weather.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2021
• If the Rams lose a playoff game on a special teams mistake, the foreshadowing has been extensive.
  — Greg Beacham, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2024
• Childhood is the land of memory and possibility; the past is the shadow and foreshadowing of the present.
  — The New York Times Magazine, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2022
• The foreshadowing of the bruising McBride’s record-setting game occurred on the first offensive play from scrimmage for the Blazers.
  — Evan Dudley, al, 26 Nov. 2022
• As the stalwart nun resolutely sets out to achieve her goals, there’s no shortage of old movie-style foreshadowing in the script by Monteverde and Rod Barr.
  — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• Still, the future couple did leave that initial night in the park with a foreshadowing (and fun-loving) memento.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 28 Mar. 2023
• There is no hint, no foreshadowing, that barely two years later in 1987, Strasser would quit Nike.
  — oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
• In a dark foreshadowing, the Washington Monument was closed to the public amid the threats of disruption.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Star Tribune, 11 Jan. 2021
• But rather than signaling an end to combat, the move was more likely a foreshadowing of a new phase in Israel’s struggle against Hamas.
  — Colin P. Clarke, Foreign Affairs, 5 Feb. 2024
• His first 18 months with the association proved to be a foreshadowing of his tenure.
  — Steve Berkowitz, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• In July 2019, a heat wave hit Bristol Bay that offered a stark foreshadowing of the kind of summers that could become the norm later in this century.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Aug. 2022
• Halloween night blowout of Missouri was some sort of football foreshadowing.
  — Mike Bianchi, orlandosentinel.com, 7 Nov. 2020
• As Princess Diana tried to escape them, her car is shown speeding away — an ominous foreshadowing of her tragic death just a few years later.
  — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 12 Aug. 2022
• Marlowe inquires, with more than a hint of ominous foreshadowing.
  — Erik Morse, Vogue, 16 Feb. 2023
• The road to disappointment starts with three wins but ominous foreshadowing.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2022
• Many Redditors note the show’s foreshadowing of Jamie’s ascent.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 29 Nov. 2022
• This is chilling foreshadowing, considering Dodi and Diana will fall in love, and their lives will be extinguished in just a few years.
  — Lincee Ray, EW.com, 9 Nov. 2022
• The comedic strength has a downside, though, as the first act skates by its quieter and more serious moments, which provide important foreshadowing for the darker second act.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• But there’s this underlying complexity that is just such a great foreshadowing for what’s to come.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2023
• His explicit foreshadowing is certainly intended to put the minds of Democrats at rest.
  — Noah Feldman Bloomberg Opinion (tns), Star Tribune, 11 Nov. 2020
• Was that just clever foreshadowing that Aemond would soon lose an eye and gain a dragon, or could Helaena actually be a greenseer, e.g. someone who can see into the future?
  — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 2 Oct. 2022
• In Sweden, the arrival of September, and with it, a certain foreshadowing of winter, seems to ushers in a micro-season that merges the summer warmth with autumn’s inevitable sense of Nordic noir.
  — Madeline Weinfield, Travel + Leisure, 11 Oct. 2023
• Jesus also washed the feet of his disciples and shared a foreshadowing of Judas’ betrayal at the Garden of Gethsemane.
  — Marina Johnson, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024