How to Use forerunner in a Sentence

forerunner

noun
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  • I had that strange feeling that's the forerunner of a cold.
  • The crest was a forerunner to the Stars and Stripes flag.
    — Sylvia Hui, USA TODAY, 11 June 2022
  • So, yes, in a strange way, yes: The (Chuck E. Cheese) band were forerunners.
    — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 9 Feb. 2018
  • But were there no forerunners, no hints of what was just about to come?
    — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2017
  • The Legge family crest, a forerunner to the Stars and Stripes flag.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 June 2022
  • But at the time, the Magic were considered the forerunners of the top-gunners.
    — Mike Bianchi, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 June 2018
  • Yes, the forerunner of the shotgun could hit its target.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2021
  • The Wolf Prize is considered one of the forerunners to a Nobel Prize.
    — Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2020
  • This summer, the forerunner for the It Shoe is the rather unexpected mesh flat.
    — Kevin Leblanc, ELLE, 13 June 2023
  • Clovis is also a forerunner of the most regal of French names: Louis.
    — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 16 June 2022
  • This must be a reference to Deep Throat, the 1972 porn film that is considered one of the forerunners of the industry.
    — Matt Miller, Esquire, 10 July 2017
  • Google is desperate not to make the same mistakes as its forerunner.
    — Gerrit De Vynck, Bloomberg.com, 31 Oct. 2020
  • Under his rule, the Cheka, the forerunner of the KGB, was responsible for a wave of terror.
    — Vanessa Gera, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The forerunner in this event since his world championship title in 2017, Warholm now has an Olympic medal to show for his efforts.
    — Rebecca Saunders, CNN, 5 Aug. 2021
  • That was the precursor, the forerunner for tutoring in the public school.
    — Barnett Wright, al, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Hwang lost it all in March 2021 after the forerunner of Paramount shocked markets with a surprise share sale which brought down his house of cards.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 July 2024
  • China must take America as a forerunner of what is to come.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Sauropodomorphs were an evolutionary forerunner to a group called sauropods known for long necks and tails and four pillar-like legs.
    — Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021
  • First came a forerunner of the saw in 1928, which looks remarkably like today’s product.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Their first restaurant, City Cafe, opened in 1981, was a forerunner in global-minded menus.
    — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
  • Over 1,400 soldiers will take part in the review, which is a forerunner to the Trooping the Colour parade that takes place the following weekend.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2024
  • The store was an early membership-only store, a forerunner to Costco and Sam's Club, that closed in 1971.
    — Douglas C. Towne, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
  • The original Bloodrock was more of a forerunner of heavy metal.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2021
  • Dry goods stores, the forerunner of department stores, flourished too.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
  • Konrad Theodor Preuss, a curator at the forerunner of the museum, had bought them on a research trip to Colombia in 1915.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 June 2023
  • The initiative narrowly passed and was a forerunner to one of the most defining events in L.A. history.
    — Liam Dillonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Savage cost-cutting and a nose for the next big thing, in this case smaller cars and minivans, forerunners of the craze for SUVs, returned Chrysler to bumper profits.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019
  • The turnout was so large that the group moved to create a more permanent location: a forerunner of the Chinatown Health Clinic.
    — Alexandra Tatarsky, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
  • But unlike her forerunners, Al-Sharif recorded it all and uploaded it to YouTube.
    — Rafia Zakaria, New Republic, 11 Oct. 2017
  • This demonstration is a forerunner to future Starship test flights that will bring the booster, and eventually the upper stage, back to land for reuse again and again.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 June 2024

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