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forerun

[fawr-ruhn, fohr-] / fɔrˈrʌn, foʊr- /








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It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels.

From Time Magazine Archive

Even so, it is not quick enough, I fear, to forerun the whims of goddesses.

From Jurgen A Comedy of Justice by Cabell, James Branch

I saw evidences of war-paint and a recent war-dance that forerun an Indian attack.

From Vanguards of the Plains by McCarter, Margaret Hill

My wretchedness unto a row of pins, They will talk of state, for every one doth so Against a change: woe is forerun with woe.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William

These signs forerun the death or fall of kings.

From King Richard II by Shakespeare, William