foreshadowing
an indication of something that will happen in the future, often used as a literary device to hint at or allude to future plot developments: The gothic novel uses foreshadowing to build suspense.
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How to use foreshadowing in a sentence
There may have also been some foreshadowing of how the agency can get back some of the emissions reductions it’ll lose when it pulls out the fee.
SANDAG’s Plan to Kill Its Driving Fee Is Stuck in the Slow Lane | Andrew Keatts | July 11, 2022 | Voice of San DiegoHe tested it in 1796 on his gardener’s son, which is a bit of a foreshadowing.
Why young orphans were once used as human refrigerators | PopSci Staff | February 9, 2022 | Popular-ScienceIt’s an argument I’m sympathetic to, given just how powerful the foreshadowing of Kendall being trapped in some way has been all season.
Often, it’s a foreshadowing of when political change is coming.
Politics Report: The 180-Degree Shift in Union Construction Politics | Andrew Keatts | July 17, 2021 | Voice of San DiegoPerhaps it was a bit of foreshadowing since, after Slovakia broke from the Czech Republic, all kinds of hell broke loose.
In a bit of foreshadowing, he repeated that opinion in November.
“The spoon was a tool for foreshadowing,” the Facebook page explains.
‘The Walking Dead’ Fans Demand: Bring Back Beth! | Melissa Leon | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn a foreshadowing of things to come, I learned that Africa is always changing.
How I Got Addicted to Africa (and Wrote a Thriller About It) | Todd Moss | September 9, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe rise of the yeoman class in Britain was particularly critical in foreshadowing the evolution of America.
In the Future We'll All Be Renters: America's Disappearing Middle Class | Joel Kotkin | August 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWe often joke that Willa was less a name, and more foreshadowing.
In that book his grandfather and father are represented as foreshadowing the greatness of their descendant.
No less striking is His touching reference to the dark days coming, the first distinct foreshadowing of the Cross.
Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of Matthew | John Monro GibsonMen have sometimes a foreshadowing of what will come to pass without distinctly seeing it.
Heroes of the Telegraph | J. MunroBut there is a wondrously clear foreshadowing of that tremendous cross scene in the earliest page of this old Book.
Quiet Talks with World Winners | S. D. GordonThere certainly was at present no foreshadowing of the coming separation, in his daughter's face.
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