Sentence examples for foretold exactly from inspiring English sources
Isn't Gabriel García Márquez's "Chronicle of a Death Foretold" exactly the length it needed to be?
A death foretold: Alec Guinness met Dean exactly a week before he died, looked at the Porsche and said: "If you get in that car you will be found dead in it by this time next week".
If you're reading this, our space program effectively avoided our foretold collision with Nibiru AKA Planet X (foretold by whom exactly?) so you're good to go.
And yet, of course, it has come to pass, just as Mr Santer foretold.
But it didn't matter, and ultimately the thing did blow up in his face, just as the Oracle foretold.
It looked like the great Nerf war of 2012 was about to commence, just as the Aztecs foretold.
This happened just before his new novel, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, appeared in the bookshops.
It's rare that the future as envisioned comes through exactly as you predicted (timeframes are usually wrong) but the essence turns out to be as you foretold.
It wasn't exactly a damp squib – whatever a squib actually is – but nor was it the head-rolling revolution they gleefully foretold.
For what it's worth, Jefferies' analyst Peter Misek foretold of a 5-inch BlackBerry 10 device last month, but his track record with this sort of thing isn't exactly sterling.
