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Example sentences for "foreseen"

Lexicographically close words:
foresayd; foresayde; foresee; foreseeable; foreseeing; foresees; foreshadow; foreshadowed; foreshadowing; foreshadowings
  1. Archelaus, in spite of himself, and though he had miserably foreseen the offer for ten minutes past.

  2. It was no surprise to me, for I had foreseen some time that all was going to wreck, and had been taking care to reserve something if I could, though it was not much, for myself.

  3. It terminated as Smith had foreseen at a wharf gate some six feet to the right of our post.

  4. It might easily have been foreseen that the proclamation was to awaken the resentment and alienate the affections of those to whom it was addressed.

  5. Gates had foreseen this movement and had prepared for it.

  6. The worthy grazier could hardly have foreseen the immortality which was destined to attach to his Cowpens.

  7. Ah, how much bitterer would have been their grief, could they have foreseen the sufferings that fateful voyage held in store for them!

  8. Fortunately M'Arthur had foreseen that difficulty, and ordered wagons sent down, and now leaving the boats he had the wounded carried through the woods to the road, placed in the wagons, and so taken the rest of the way to their destination.

  9. And yet all the morning, and indeed until late in the afternoon, there was a gentle and steady breeze from the south-west, while the sun shone brightly, so that the oldest seaman among us could not have foreseen what was to follow.

  10. Was it likely, moreover, that the minions of the torturer had not foreseen and provided for this possibility!

  11. The good lady had not foreseen that, otherwise she would never have let the king come near me; but he was acting in such good faith that he continued friendly to me to his last hour.

  12. The fact was going to happen as he had foreseen it happening and for the very reasons which he had expected.

  13. We must reflect that Ribeira will have foreseen the danger and presume that he has taken his precautions, in case the underground passage should be discovered.

  14. Alas, you were not made for greatness: I ought to have foreseen that and not hooked my fortune to a rhymester!

  15. How, I ask you, could the prisoner have foreseen and prepared for all those ingenious traps formulated in the resourceful brain of my learned friend, unless he was telling the simple truth?

  16. But he could not have foreseen what would happen.

  17. It is that particular foreseen object that will stimulate the act which relieves existing troubles, straightens out existing entanglements.

  18. In this case, it exemplifies what has been said about good or happiness as incorporating in itself at present the foreseen future consequences that result from intelligent action.

  19. It has been pointed out that the ends, objectives, of conduct are those foreseen consequences which influence present deliberation and which finally bring it to rest by furnishing an adequate stimulus to overt action.

  20. The "ends" that are foreseen and utilized mark out a little island in an infinite sea.

  21. The action of deliberation, as we have seen, consists in selecting some foreseen consequence to serve as a stimulus to present action.

  22. The future that is foreseen is a future that is sometime to be a present.

  23. Aglaya had not foreseen that particular calamity.

  24. The prince who, up to yesterday, would not have believed that he could even dream of such an impossible scene as this, stood and listened and looked on, and felt as though he had long foreseen it all.

  25. If I had only foreseen this unpleasantness!

  26. The Nuncio had at once foreseen that the court, after crushing the Huguenots, would not become more amenable to the counsels of Rome.

  27. Had he foreseen the injustice of the Spanish government to his son," continued the veteran, "I doubt not he would have bequeathed his benevolence in a more prudent measure!

  28. The moment he heard it, he wondered that he should not have foreseen the birth of such a sentiment, in such a character as Louis, for such a mind as Lady Marcella's.

  29. The proof that it had been foreseen and provided for is in the manner these heads were adapted to the frames.

  30. The question is not new to me, as I have foreseen the possibility of its arising, and have frequently considered it.

  31. How little could the Buddha have foreseen such a development of his brotherhood of monks, whose chief duties were meditation and itineration!

  32. And in the first place it must not be forgotten that Gautama himself seems to have foreseen this result.

  33. And, besides, how should he have foreseen that the girl would drown herself?

  34. Just that had happened which Nashko, with the clear discernment of his race, had foreseen and foretold, the catastrophe occurring in the last days of July.

  35. Moreover, his falsified report resulted in one thing his cowardly soul approved of--the prospect of military reinforcement--for he could not have foreseen his being sent away from the menaced city.

  36. This rapid development of the interior region of America was not foreseen by the wisest of the prophets of fifty years ago.

  37. The latter did not foresee our Civil War, nor could he have foreseen our armies across seas.

  38. He had neither foreseen nor imagined the danger in which he was placed by reason of the manifold charms of the Lady Blanche, and that he would be more than man to resist them.

  39. But the wily arch-priest had foreseen that, with Vulcar away, there would be none hardy enough to oppose him in taking the entire city.

  40. Pryak was quick to notice that which he had foreseen and counted upon: the relaxed watchfulness and lack of discipline among the handful of armed men attending the king.

  41. That of the Deutschland is much less demonstrative, because of the inaccuracy in the foreseen issue.

  42. If I only could have foreseen that there would be an increase of value!

  43. She had not foreseen anything of this, and her feelings could seldom withstand the melancholy influence of the word "last.

  44. Still he could never have foreseen such a result, and therefore he should not be held responsible for it.

  45. If he had given due consideration to his conduct, he might have foreseen whither it was tending.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreseen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.