How to Use foresee in a Sentence

foresee

verb
  • He foresees a day when all war will cease.
  • We couldn't have foreseen the consequences of our actions.
  • She foresaw the company's potential and invested early on.
  • Nobody could have foreseen this just six months ago.
    — Josh Brown and Sean Russo, CNBC, 4 May 2026
  • What happened next no one could have foreseen.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • We were warned, but who could have foreseen such an epic meltdown?
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Few, though, could have foreseen this type of start for the Dodgers.
    — Jack Harris, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • The storms are foreseen to bring quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • The storms are foreseen to bring quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The storms are foreseen to bring quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Right now, can anyone in his right mind foresee that in the near future?
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But who could foresee that the coronavirus would sweep the world?
    — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2020
  • Some of what has befallen them shouldn’t have been hard to foresee.
    — Eric Branch, SFChronicle.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • But there may be far-longer-term consequences that are hard to foresee.
    — Rafael Nam, NPR, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The Church didn’t foresee what happened next.
    — Scott D. Anthony, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The song took on a life of its own—or rather, many lives, and not always ones that could have been foreseen.
    — Jake Lundberg, The Atlantic, 8 June 2026
  • Did no one foresee the current scenario?
    — Leonardo Padura, Time, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This was foreseeable — and in fact foreseen.
    — Jim Geraghty, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch) are foreseen.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch) are foreseen.
    — Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch) are foreseen.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 June 2026
  • It’s been better than even the most optimistic among us could have foreseen.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • What the fan couldn’t have foreseen was the head coach hearing him and then sharply responding.
    — Audrey Snyder, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
  • The founders certainly didn’t foresee the war machines guns are now.
    — Thembi Ford, Essence, 8 Aug. 2019
  • And that's something that 25 years ago this week none of us could have foreseen or even dared to hope for.
    — EW.com, 21 Sep. 2024
  • The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    — Star-Telegram Weather Bot, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2025
  • And a deepfake economy will likely change things in ways no one can foresee.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The storms are foreseen to bring wind gusts of up to 60 mph and quarter-sized hail (1 inch).
    — Kansas City Star Weather Bot, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
  • The storms are foreseen to bring quarter-sized hail (1 inch) and wind gusts of up to 60 mph.
    — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Many foresee a net loss of jobs in December for the first time since April.
    — Christopher Rugaber and Casey Smith, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020

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