Explore Foretaste through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like expectation or outlook. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Foretaste in a sentence
Foretaste meaning
- A taste beforehand.
- A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
Synonyms of Foretaste
Using Foretaste
- The main meaning on this page is: A taste beforehand. | A sample taken in anticipation; an experience undergone in advance.
- Useful related words include: expectation, outlook, prospect.
- In the example corpus, foretaste often appears in combinations such as: foretaste of, as foretaste, be foretaste.
Context around Foretaste
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 9 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 15 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Foretaste
- In this selection, "foretaste" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, possible, small, albeit and perhaps stand out and add context to how "foretaste" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as a foretaste of what and a possible foretaste of turmoil. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "foretaste" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with foretaste
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Are Schumer’s threats against conservative justices just a foretaste of what’s to come? (15 words)
This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist). (18 words)
Even so, in this earthly life we can still enjoy a foretaste of that ultimate goodness for which we long. (20 words)
The cold and wintry precipitation expected during a not-so-super weather weekend might be a foretaste of what’s to come, as the government’s and commercial forecasts favor a chilly and wet, but not necessarily snowy, February. (39 words)
They celebrate the outcome of the Ekiti robbery as a foretaste of what is to come in Rivers State and across Nigeria in the 2019 General Elections, albeit, without a sense of history and at so short a time. (39 words)
When we simplify life within the home by cleaning and decluttering, we are able to become stewards of hospitality and share in the foretaste of the heavenly wedding banquet as we welcome guests into our homes. (36 words)
Are Schumer’s threats against conservative justices just a foretaste of what’s to come? (15 words)
Example sentences (16)
When we simplify life within the home by cleaning and decluttering, we are able to become stewards of hospitality and share in the foretaste of the heavenly wedding banquet as we welcome guests into our homes.
These diocesan eucharistic congresses give a foretaste—albeit on a smaller scale—of what U.S. Catholics can expect in July, when Indianapolis hosts the National Eucharistic Congress, the first national congress in 83 years.
Are Schumer’s threats against conservative justices just a foretaste of what’s to come?
Even so, in this earthly life we can still enjoy a foretaste of that ultimate goodness for which we long.
That means miles of lorry queues and chaos in Kent today — a foretaste of what could happen in a poorly-handled Brexit.
In one sense, the film was oddly prescient – a foretaste, perhaps, of the current ubiquity of digital technology on the dating scene.
Johnson had a possible foretaste of turmoil ahead when, as he drove to his audience with the queen, Greenpeace protesters tried – but failed – to block the path of his car as his chauffeur drove around them.
None of her family could allow themselves to confront the possibility that all this might be a foretaste of something far more terrible.
The cold and wintry precipitation expected during a not-so-super weather weekend might be a foretaste of what’s to come, as the government’s and commercial forecasts favor a chilly and wet, but not necessarily snowy, February.
The vote was seen as a foretaste of a scheduled July general election for the National Assembly that is also expected to affirm Prime Minister Hun Sen’s three-decade rule.
They celebrate the outcome of the Ekiti robbery as a foretaste of what is to come in Rivers State and across Nigeria in the 2019 General Elections, albeit, without a sense of history and at so short a time.
We got a small foretaste of the new shape of the issues causing tension in the Balkans from the position adopted by Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in an interview published on Tuesday.
Burton, pp. 130–131 In the dialogue with Spoletta, the "torture" motif—an "ideogram of suffering", according to Budden—is heard for the first time as a foretaste of what is to come.
During World War I, London experienced its first bombing raids carried out by German zeppelin airships ; these killed around 700 people and caused great terror, but were merely a foretaste of what was to come.
There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was experiencing a foretaste of Socialism, by which I mean that the prevailing mental atmosphere was that of Socialism.
This decisive empirical test left my politics in tatters (and offered a foretaste of life as a scientist).
Common combinations with foretaste
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- foretaste of 14×
- as foretaste 3×
- be foretaste 2×