Example sentences for: foreshadowing

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

  • As a final stroke, in a grim foreshadowing of what the future held in store for the Jews, the niddah had to wear special clothing as a badge of her separate and despised status.

  • At the foot of Mt. Emei are the 16th-century Loyalty to Country Temple (Baoguosi) and the Crouching Tiger Temple (Fuhusi), foreshadowing the many temples ahead.

  • Moreover, the film's foreshadowing of Chinese atrocities (as reflected by a dream in which the Dalai Lama sees his native village being pillaged and monks shot) reflects the historical facts all too well.

  • Couldn't Soutine's eruptive, vertiginous landscapes be construed as recollections of a ravaged Europe, or even as the foreshadowing of an apocalyptic, post-atomic future?

  • She picks through childhood memories for a foreshadowing of what was to come.


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