forerun
Example Sentences
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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.
From Time Magazine Archive
He only wondered what strange experience this blindfold journey was to forerun.
From The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest by Cullum, Ridgwell
O, this same thought did but forerun my need; And this same needy man must sell it me.
From Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, William
He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger.
From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord
The President's secret had been well kept, and for once rumor had not forerun execution.
From Abraham Lincoln, Volume II by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
