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Forehold


Definition:

  • (n.) The forward part of the hold of a ship.

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Foretold


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Foretell

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Events in Kaga-Bandoro were not only foretold but could have been prevented.
  • (2) When the UN declared famine in Somalia in July last year, it was a disaster foretold as there had been plenty of warnings in the lead-up to the crisis.
  • (3) Judgment day failed to materialise again on 5 April 1761, as foretold by William Bell of London.
  • (4) Examination of secular trends suggests that the high cancer mortality rates of the 1980s could have been foretold by the excessive rates in the 1930s in Louisiana.
  • (5) In one of the cases the high content of the factor foretold the disease development.
  • (6) But it didn’t take long for Stan to see that Maline’s death foretold his own.
  • (7) But their arrival had been foretold when the city's tolerant social mix was ripped apart in the first years after George W Bush's mission was accomplished.
  • (8) But the real spiritual argument happens in how her weirdly cut and twisting narratives unfold: a death foretold long before a person's story has even started, as in The Driver's Seat (1970) or The Hothouse by the East River (1973); the interest in how superstition and other forms of false consciousness precipitate evil actions, as in The Bachelors (1960) or The Girls of Slender Means (1963); the way an innocuous-looking catchphrase, like Miss Jean Brodie's famous "crème de la crème", attains a mysteriously sacramental force by dint of a rhythmic repetition, half-gossipy, half-incantatory in intent.
  • (9) The future of the euro itself was, one headline declared, "a chronicle of a death foretold".
  • (10) The sale was foretold in the accounts for the year to March 2011, which warned the business might have to be sold at a price that would not be sufficient to repay all the preference shareholder debt.
  • (11) That sense of frustration came through clearly in the crisis in east Africa, where the early warning systems foretold drought – the worst in some areas for 60 years – but the international response was tardy.
  • (12) EDF Actionnariat salarié (EAS) said in a statement that the interests of EDF are gravely threatened by the Hinkley Point project, which it calls “a financial catastrophy foretold” in which EDF has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
  • (13) Unlike Hazel Blears and Jacqui Smith, whose departures were foretold after their expenses claims were revealed, Purnell was not thought to be in danger over his claims.
  • (14) 'One second I'm a Koons, then suddenly the Koons is me' This collaboration with Jeff Koons was foretold in Lady Gaga's recent single, Applause, and true to her word, she has quite literally become a Koons.
  • (15) There can be no doubt that Michel's emails accurately and in detail described meetings the secretary of state had had, and accurately foretold what the secretary of state was going to do.
  • (16) Naturally there are limits to what can be foretold, because so much would depend on the outcome of London-Edinburgh negotiation.
  • (17) Intra-operative esophageal electromanometry (IEM), a method foretold by the authors since 1972, is indicated in the course interventions for functional esophageal disease.
  • (18) The image of Guzmán which ricocheted around the world – a shackled, dazed figure in a filthy T-shirt – may have suggested a spent force and a fall foretold.
  • (19) The 1984 film The Terminator foretold of an epic battle between man and machine, each striving for dominance.
  • (20) That we are not yet at that stage which was foretold by our fathers when they created this organisation."

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