Example sentences for: foresaw

How can you use “foresaw” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • marauding Indians who regularly crossed into U.S. territory to pillage, burn and murder," and calls Andrew Jackson, who ruthlessly waged war against them, a man of "vision, unapologetic about the means [he] employed to realize the destiny [he] foresaw for America."

  • As the CIA supervisor "John" told us, no one looked at the bigger picture; no analytic work foresaw the lightning that could connect the thundercloud to the ground.

  • We recognize that this is a new and difficult idea precisely because the authorities we recommend for the NCTC really would, as Secretary Rumsfeld foresaw, ask strong agencies to "give up some of their turf and authority in exchange for a stronger, faster, more efficient government wide joint effort."

  • Techno-utopian George Gilder foresaw the convergence of all these electronic boxes into one back in his 1990 book, Life After Television , proposing a simple yet powerful "teleputer" device.

  • Bell (who actually made it through Volume III of Capital !) discovered that Marx himself foresaw this possibility as he observed the growth of an investment-banking system in the late 19th century.


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