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Example sentences for "forerunner"

Lexicographically close words:
forepaws; forepeak; forequarter; forequarters; forerun; forerunners; forerunning; fores; foresaid; foresaide
  1. Brahe was the forerunner of the true scientist, Lincoln the forerunner of the true statesman.

  2. But he is merely as a forerunner in comparison with Baha.

  3. The Bab did not consider himself as the herald or forerunner of another dispensation, as a John the Baptist to Christ.

  4. To represent him (the Bab) as simply the forerunner of Baha is an historic falsehood.

  5. Often the crust cracked to an unknown distance, easing from the frost, which the boys accepted as the forerunner of thawing weather.

  6. A warm, fine day was usually the forerunner of a storm, the approach of which gave little warning, requiring a sleepless vigilance to avoid being taken unaware or at a disadvantage.

  7. Against this glorious future there is a sad omen: the initials of the forerunner of this discovery are--NO!

  8. To such community we can make no more claim than Americus could make to being the forerunner of Columbus who popularized his discoveries.

  9. In the second volume of the Harleian Miscellany, there is a tract, entitled the Forerunner of Revenge, written by George Eglisham, doctor of medicine, and one of the physicians to King James.

  10. Some insisted that it was a forerunner of a bloody war; others maintained that it predicted a great famine; but the greater number, founding their judgment upon its pale colour, thought it portended a pestilence.

  11. He preached Brahms and Chopin, but practised Wagner--he was the forerunner to Wagner, for he was the first composer who fashioned literature into tone.

  12. This nocturne is called a forerunner to the Chopin nocturnes.

  13. Over the mountains and valleys of Switzerland hangs that gloomy and mysterious silence, the forerunner of the tempest.

  14. A spirit of imprudence and of error--sad forerunner of the fall of republics as well as of kings--had spread over the whole city of Zurich.

  15. He was thus the forerunner of Pinsker, and of Herzl a decade later.

  16. Yet this country store, found in every hamlet, was the forerunner of the department store of today.

  17. This undoubtedly was the forerunner of the present-day vertical file.

  18. He naturally suspected that all this was a forerunner of his brother's death; and so it turned out to be.

  19. May St. John, the chief forerunner and baptist of Christ, curse him or them.

  20. This was more than the forerunner could manage; he flung himself on a sledge as it went by.

  21. The forerunner had to take up each fish and throw it on one side; then one of the drivers went out, took it up, and put it on his sledge.

  22. However that may be, Walpole's trifling was the first forerunner of much that has occupied the minds of much greater artists ever since.

  23. Nothing that could be turned into copy for the newspaper or the sixpenny pamphlet of the day came amiss to this forerunner of journalistic enterprise.

  24. Lightning from dark and ominous-looking clouds, is always a forerunner of threats, of loss and of disappointments.

  25. To dream of pearls, is a forerunner of good business and trade and affairs of social nature.

  26. To dream of a prison, is the forerunner of misfortune in every instance, if it encircles your friends, or yourself.

  27. It is the forerunner of the weakening of health and may mean early dissolution.

  28. An obelisk looming up stately and cold in your dreams is the forerunner of melancholy tidings.

  29. To dream of soup, is a forerunner of good tidings and comfort.

  30. It is also a forerunner of unpleasant gossip, and scandal is threatened.

  31. To dream of harvest time, is a forerunner of prosperity and pleasure.

  32. To dream of a yew tree, is a forerunner of illness and disappointment.

  33. To dream of crying, is a forerunner of illusory pleasures, which will subside into gloom, and distressing influences affecting for evil business engagements and domestic affairs.

  34. To see a mob attempting to break open a jail, is a forerunner of evil, and desperate measures will be used to extort money and bounties from you.

  35. The innocent Saint at Bugden was the forerunner of the prisoner at Fotheringay; and the Observant friars, with their chain girdles and shirts of hair, were the antitypes of Parsons and Campion.

  36. It was also a superstitious notion that unusual mirth was a forerunner of adversity.

  37. A "watery sunset" is still considered by many a forerunner of wet.

  38. We may see in this method of construction the forerunner of the system, universal since that time, of building walls on a plinth, which survives even to the present day.

  39. In this way we may regard it as the immediate forerunner of Hellenic art, although its development was temporarily arrested by the Dorian invasion, just as the people who produced it formed the basis of the Hellenic race.

  40. The law whose passage was secured by her zeal was the forerunner the Severalty Act of 1885 which marked a change in policy of the Government and ushered in a better era for all the Indian tribes.

  41. Heumann[662] repudiated Lacroze's description of him as an atheist and forerunner of Spinoza's pantheism, describing him as a martyr for the Lutheran faith and as an eclectic in philosophy.

  42. His heart was in the work of Heeren, easily the greatest of historical critics then living, and the forerunner of the modern school; it was from this master that Bancroft caught his enthusiasm for minute pains-taking erudition.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forerunner" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ancestor; announcer; antecedent; ascendant; bushwhacker; choirmaster; coach; conductor; duce; evangelist; explorer; forebears; forerunner; frontiersman; fugleman; guide; harbinger; herald; innovator; instructor; leader; messenger; original; pathfinder; pioneer; point; precedent; precursor; predecessor; premise; progenitor; rigging; ringleader; rope; scout; stock; teacher; torchbearer; trainer; vanguard