How to Use foretaste in a Sentence

foretaste

noun

• These layoffs are only a foretaste of what's to come.
• This year's fire behavior may be just a foretaste of what's to come.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
• The dark things in our world and culture and lives today are in fact foretastes of damnation, the beachheads of Hell.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 5 Nov. 2019
• In August in Chicago, that foretaste comes before the middle of the month, but the principle is the same.
  — Mary Schmich, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• Dante fought in the cavalry at Campaldino, and war must have given him a foretaste of Hell.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The fearsome mountain Pitz Palu looms in the background, offering a foretaste of Fanck’s next movie.
  — New York Times, 22 June 2018
• But many worry that the incident is just a foretaste of what will happen if the new bill is enacted.
  — The Economist, 14 Mar. 2021
• In this, the 1980s hullabaloo over mitochondrial Eve served as simply a foretaste of what was to come.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Feb. 2010
• Its debut here in an airplane hangar, far from the glamorous Croisette, is a foretaste of its display in arts institutions.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 17 May 2017
• The action is also, in all likelihood, a prophetic foretaste of where this group might go once Trump is finally out of office.
  — Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
• The trade upheaval just 10 days before Britain’s post-Brexit transition period is due to end gave the country a foretaste of what could ensue.
  — Alex Morales, Bloomberg.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• But Chicago was a city of immigrants who gave it a foretaste of European politics.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022
• The chaos of trucks stuck on British highways and at a former airfield in the surrounding countryside in Kent seemed to offer a foretaste, writ large, of what life outside the European Union might mean.
  — New York Times, 26 Dec. 2020
• Lumen, the largest work Ms. Sabin has completed to date, offers the public a tantalizing foretaste of things, quite possibly, to come.
  — Julie V. Iovine, WSJ, 11 July 2017
• China’s sorghum move amounts to a foretaste of what U.S. farmers and manufacturers might face now that Mr. Trump has announced a plan to slap 25% tariffs on steel imports and 10% on aluminum.
  — William Mauldin, WSJ, 3 Mar. 2018
• The tolerance for censorship and even violence to suppress dissenting voices may be a foretaste of things to come.
  — Alan M. Dershowitz, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2017
• However, to have just a foretaste at Sublimotion is so exciting.
  — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
• The recent stock market rumpus has been set off in part by fears that a tight labor market and quickening wage growth are a foretaste of higher inflation and interest rates.
  — Author: Patricia Cohen, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Feb. 2018
• But the Civil War experience proved to be a foretaste of modern monetary policy.
  — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Critics said the imperious way in which Mr. Xi scored his constitutional coup was a foretaste of how his power could swell into dangerous hubris.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2018
• This conflict within the administration is likely to be only a foretaste of the larger problems that will inevitably emerge if, as is likely, Trump’s overblown sales pitch runs ashore of reality.
  — Jeet Heer, The New Republic, 2 July 2018
• And so as people across Southern California woke up Saturday morning grateful for being spared this time, there was the sense that Friday night’s temblor could have been just a foretaste of something bigger.
  — Tim Arango, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2019
• On Tuesday, opposition leaders offered a tangy foretaste of those attacks.
  — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
• In a foretaste of that contention, members of the House minority withheld a critical vote needed to spend money from the Constitutional Budget Reserve.
  — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 4 Mar. 2020
• Europe had a foretaste of disaster in the early twentieth century when an unknown disease swept the continent from Scandinavia to southern Italy.
  — Stephanie Pain, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Sep. 2020
• With more local elections expected later this year, the arguing over Lyon’s school meals offered a foretaste of broader political battles to come.
  — John Leicester, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2021
• By the Sixties, the denunciation of nostalgia had become a liberal ritual, but such skirmishes provided only a foretaste of the campaign that followed.
  — Christopher Lasch, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• The cold and wintry precipitation expected during a not-so-super weather weekend might be a foretaste of what’s to come, as the government’s and commercial forecasts favor a chilly and wet, but not necessarily snowy, February.
  — Anthony R. Wood, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
• In this impasse, some transportation experts see a foretaste of the political infighting and financial hurdles that could plague the nationwide infrastructure projects that President Trump is promising.
  — Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2017
• These pressures could very well intensify, providing a possible foretaste of what could be on the near-term horizon, until Europe manages a credible and sustainable transition to renewable energy.
  — David A. Andelman, CNN, 16 Oct. 2021

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