How to Use prefigure in a Sentence

prefigure

verb

• His style of painting prefigured the development of modern art.
• Tim, more than any of their records, prefigured the 1990s rock boom that made these guys posthumous legends.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Sep. 2023
• Eva’s name, the Latinate of Eve, prefigures her role in the post-apocalyptic world.
  — Maria Garcia, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• Aggressively pretty clothes were worn in a fume flecked background that prefigured the gilet jaunes Parisian chaos of the last few months.
  — Vogue, 28 Dec. 2018
• And that domination prefigured his takeover of the G.O.P. and the Party’s abasement of itself before him.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• Netroots activists pushed the Democrats to the left, helped the party retake Congress in 2006, and prefigured Obama’s use of social media.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 11 May 2017
• The North saga prefigured many things, large and small, about conservative politics in the present moment.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 7 May 2018
• But this project, written by and about women, prefigures a lot of the calls for representation that have emerged from the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements.
  — Alex Bhattacharji, WSJ, 21 May 2018
• Not long ago, Hong Kong was seen as the city that would prefigure a more liberal, prosperous future for China.
  — Washington Post, 3 July 2020
• In many ways, the series prefigured what 2016’s Rogue One was trying to accomplish: tell a standalone story in the larger Star Wars universe, apart from the main saga story.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2018
• In so many ways Davis prefigured today's workaholic NFL exec.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• The effort to install Yanukovych prefigured many elements of Trump’s campaign.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 8 July 2018
• The matters to which Hayes referred were, even if not fully predictable, certainly prefigured.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 8 Jan. 2020
• Such episodes prefigured a broader turn in the case for exacting drug regulation.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• As in life, guns prefigure and alter things, often irreparably.
  — Jeffrey Ann Goudie, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Mar. 2021
• Through the language of the missal as well as through the posture and gestures of the priest at the altar, the traditional Latin Mass recalls Temple sacrifice, a type that prefigured the blood sacrifice on Calvary.
  — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 21 Sep. 2017
• Magnetic wheels mean that the surface can be a floor, wall, or ceiling, prefiguring a future where these contraptions might crawl on the walls of theme park attractions.
  — Joseph Flaherty, WIRED, 9 May 2014
• The weakness of their victory is related to the second, more general reason to watch the SBC: Big church splits can prefigure big national splits.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 16 June 2021
• Jesus’ swaddling clothes prefigure his freeing us from death’s winding sheets.
  — Alexandra Mullen, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2020
• But so far state media and official spokesmen have avoided the slogans that often prefigure outbreaks of public rage—the charge, say, that a foreign power has hurt the feelings of the Chinese people.
  — The Economist, 23 June 2018
• The company’s latest financial results seem to prefigure this bleak prospect.
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• These opening titles really seem to prefigure the Harry Potter movies.
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2021
• McCarthy was elected speaker on the fifteenth and final vote, prefiguring a tumultuous time in office.
  — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023
• China didn’t simply swoop in and make the disputing parties suddenly get along; the progress made in Beijing hardly prefigures a major shift in the regional dynamic — at least, not yet.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2023
• This was true even with the panels that prefigured electronic screens, including shoji, as well as mirrors and newspaper broadsheets.
  — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
• But even as the spare language of her lines endows them with a monumental feel, their brevity and levity also prefigure the semiotically fraught short exchanges of the texting era.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2021
• Grandpop, whose memory is fading with old age, recalls bits of his combat experience, which prefigures what happens to his son and grandson.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 6 Feb. 2018
• That the doll seemed to prefigure Madonna’s nearly identical look on tour shortly after only confirmed Mackie’s uncanny feel for the zeitgeist.
  — Evan Nicole Brown, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2023
• Limbaugh’s success prefigured more than the rise of conservative radio.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 8 Feb. 2020
• His two-decade rule has transformed the face of his country and cemented a political style that prefigured the rise of numerous nationalist demagogues elsewhere.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 10 May 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024