foreshadow

Object

• event: However, this foreshadowed some truly horrible events to take place in the not to distant future.
• end: However, the beginning foreshadows the end of the times of the Gentiles.
• development: All of these developments foreshadowed the expansion which took place on the estate over the next few decades.
• change: Educational reform in Poland, which formally started on the 1st of September 1999, foreshadows great changes in our system of education.
• death: John's death foreshadowed the cross toward which Jesus was inexorably moving.
• way: He appeared under rather curious circumstances, which in no way foreshadowed the final result.

Subject

• event: In retrospect, the incident was foreshadowed by several disturbing events.

Modifying Another Word

• clearly: The association between drill and eye conveys the violent thoughts brewing in Reno's mind, and clearly foreshadows his future killing spree.
• already: An increase is already foreshadowed by our current four-year plan, which must necessarily fall on the Constituent Bodies.
• also: This design change may also foreshadow the tastes of the upcoming overhaul for the Fiat range, which is expected in 2006.
• not: However, there are reasons why a rise in heterosexual STIs need not foreshadow a rise in heterosexual HIV.
• perhaps: Indeed, existing policies on EMU, Schengen and the Amsterdam Treaty's provisions on flexibility, perhaps foreshadowed this approach.
• here: By analysis of the type foreshadowed here, the detection of linkage might serve to identify genes whose presence was hitherto unsuspected.

Used with why or when

• what: What an honor to be the man who foreshadows what God will do!
• when: Jem foreshadowed this when he said, ' " ...I wish we could help Joey to control herself better.

Preposition: in

• film: Additionally, the foreshadowing in this film, both subtle and not-so-subtle, will have comics fans squealing with glee.
• way: Not only was the crucifixion of Christ expressly predicted in the Old Testament it was also clearly foreshadowed in many ways as well.

Preposition: of

• event: However, her dream in ' Restless ' was a foreshadowing of events in Season Six.
• cross: By far the clearest foreshadowing of the cross can be seen in the old testament sacrificial system.

Preposition: by

• event: In retrospect, the incident was foreshadowed by several disturbing events.