foretell - use in sentences

Object

  • scenario: Some people are making wild guesses and foretell a doomsday scenario for the world.
  • future: The only thing is - you won't need a crystal ball to foretell the future.
  • destruction: A Centauri seeress foretells the destruction of Babylon 5. A mysterious stranger visits each of Babylon 5's alien ambassadors.
  • event: Chad Valley Spring used to foretell events like battles the plague.

Modifying Another Word

  • not: His early career did not foretell his artistic interests.
  • accurately: When Janie emerges at her command she accurately foretells her future.
  • often: In Scotland, a similar legendary spirit normally takes the form of a drummer boy or piper and likewise often foretells death or misfortune.

Used with why or when

  • what: Astrology, palm reading, whatever - you can't foretell what will happen to you.

Modifying Another Word

  • clearly: But now for the proof: The Prophesy of Daniel I. The system of Popery was clearly foretold by the prophet Daniel.
  • only: But this unique physicist, engineer and famed science fiction writer has not only foretold the future, he's helped shape it.

Preposition: in

  • prophesy: The one is the Coming foretold in Hebrew prophesy, which will bring deliverance to the favored nation in days to come.
  • scripture: But it is not the cosmic war and fiery collapse of mankind foretold in sacred scripture.
  • verse: He was an Ishmaelite and accordingly is automatically disqualified from being the prophet whose coming was foretold in that verse.

Preposition: by

  • prophet: It had been foretold by the Prophets, he said.
  • mouth: But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ should suffer, he thus fulfilled.
  • prophesy: Each bears a mystical blade, blades foretold by prophesy.

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