foretell

Example Sentences

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A philosopher, historian, songbird of grief and prophet, Didion foretold the city’s future with startling accuracy.

From Los Angeles Times

As the journalist Robert Bryce foretold years ago: “Electric vehicles are the Next Big Thing, and they always will be.”

From The Wall Street Journal

It was just as the mother wolf had foretold.

From Literature

What follows is a chronicle of a death foretold.

From Los Angeles Times

“Apples float, and as the girls’ potential sweethearts ducked to catch the fruit with their teeth, future couplings were determined — or foretold.”

From Salon