prefigure
Example Sentences
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Early on, when the heroine, the novice Isabella, is introduced with a prayer, the music seems to prefigure “Parsifal.”
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2022
None prefigure a world I want to live in.
From Salon • Nov. 24, 2021
People who have received the shots two to four weeks earlier should watch for symptoms that may prefigure the onset of clotting.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021
As an example, Alter cited Dr. Steiner’s assertion that “Antigone draws about herself an ethical solitude, a lucid dryness which seems to prefigure the stringencies of Kant.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 5, 2020
The twilight seemed to prefigure the fading of the human race.
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
