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[ US /fɔɹˈtɛɫ/ ]
[ UK /fɔːtˈɛl/ ]
VERB
  1. foreshadow or presage
  2. make a prediction about; tell in advance
    Call the outcome of an election
  3. indicate, as with a sign or an omen
    These signs bode bad news

How To Use foretell In A Sentence

  • None of us can foretell what lies ahead.
  • Willow trees breaking out into buds foretell the coming of spring.
  • Assuredly, by foretelling the destruction of a Temple a preacher could invite backlash for the implied criticism of its hierocracy.
  • In other words, they actually believe that children use cardboard toys to cast spells and foretell the future.
  • Foretelling accurately when and where the earthquake will happen is only a form of rumor at current stage which will cause a panic among the people.
  • The true prophet does not foretell an inevitable future, but warns of likely consequences should a present course of action continue.
  • And like all successful prophets he would be heeded by the rich and the powerful, even if their own churches warned against foretelling the future.
  • Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill 
  • To dream you hear hens cackling foretells success in love, and an accumulation of riches by means of female relations.
  • But his distinguishing feature, his "dominating gift," was that of prophecy, especially in foretelling the deaths of children, "which he almost always accompanied with jocular words _ (scherzi) _ on his lips. Old Calabria
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