Sentence examples for the forerunner of from inspiring English sources

That club was the forerunner of what became Berghain.

The Konversationslexikon was the forerunner of the Brockhaus encyclopaedias.

"Bill was the forerunner of the modern middle linebacker".

This group was the forerunner of the Abstract Expressionist movement.

He replaced it with a departmental bureaucracy that was the forerunner of the modern constitutional state.

Is the pretzel croissant the forerunner of the Cronut or merely its parallel creature?

Stability in oil prices may have been the forerunner of something unpleasant, too.

His Southern Baroque Art (1924) was the forerunner of much academic research.

He recognized in John the forerunner of the kingdom that his own ministry proclaimed.

Protapirus from the Oligocene of Europe and North America was the forerunner of the modern tapirs.

In the Rigveda he is sometimes identified with Rudra, the forerunner of the god Shiva.