How to Use foretaste in a Sentence

foretaste

noun
  • These layoffs are only a foretaste of what's to come.
  • However, there is a way to get a foretaste of the menu.
    — Ella Gonzales may 8, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 May 2026
  • This year's fire behavior may be just a foretaste of what's to come.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 4 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • What is on track to happen in South Korea offers a foretaste of what lies in store for the rest of the world.
    — Nicholas Eberstadt, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Inside the learning area, zookeepers display live animals in a foretaste of what campers will see next week.
    — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 May 2024
  • 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
  • Few might have objected to descriptions of Thursday as a throwback to spring, or a foretaste of fall.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • However, to have just a foretaste at Sublimotion is so exciting.
    — Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The fearsome mountain Pitz Palu looms in the background, offering a foretaste of Fanck’s next movie.
    — New York Times, 22 June 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
  • But Chicago was a city of immigrants who gave it a foretaste of European politics.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2022
  • On Tuesday, opposition leaders offered a tangy foretaste of those attacks.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • On the announcement day, Astera Labs jumped about 11% and Rocket Lab around 9%, a foretaste of the flows to come.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • The conspicuous presence of this triad of combat aircraft in such an unlikely setting offers a foretaste of what this historical manor has in store for its guests.
    — Miquel Ros, CNN, 2 May 2023
  • But the Civil War experience proved to be a foretaste of modern monetary policy.
    — Roger Lowenstein, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Paramilitary veterans forced Gainsbourg to cancel a concert in Strasbourg in 1980, a foretaste of the rise of the French extreme right.
    — Roger Cohen, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Indeed, during his time in office, Frick delivered a foretaste of what could be expected if the National Socialists came to power nationally.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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

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