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• A forerunner of contract bridge was called auction bridge.From the entry contract bridge
• The result is essentially a hybrid species similar in appearance to its extinct forerunner.2025 April 7, Katie Hunt, “Scientists say they have resurrected the dire wolf”, in CNN. From the entry extinct
• This could be the forerunner to the world’s first fully marbelic computer.2015 June 1, Boundegar, “Watch an insane marble machine with 11,000 marbles”, in boingboing bbs. From the entry marbelic
• Very commonly the forerunner of mat formation is the cassandra (Chamaedaphne calyculata).1981, Timothy K. Kratz, The Formation of a Northern Wisconsin Kettle-hole Bog, page 19. From the entry cassandra
• The reputation of the Melbourne larrikin was world wide, the larrikin being the forerunner of the hooligan.1907 June 17, Guy Baring, “Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill”, in The Parliamentary Debates (Authorised Edition), Fourth Series, Second…. From the entry larrikin
• Sluice valves, the medieval forerunner of stop valves, were installed and to avoid tampering were protected within brick housings called tamkins.2017, Julian McCarthy, Kingston upon Thames in 50 Buildings. From the entry tamkin
• The chantuelle were the forerunners of the predominantly male calypso artists who emerged as popular singers in the twentieth century.2013, Rochelle Rowe, “Cleaning Up Carnival: Race, Culture and Power in the Trinidad ‘Carnival Queen’ Beauty Competition, 1946–59”, in…. From the entry chantwell
• Tuileries, on the Rue de Rivoli side, was once used for jeu de paume (or “palm game,” a forerunner of tennis).2012, Fodor's France 2012. From the entry jeu de paume
• The group performed in the old bowery, an open-air building with a roof of branches laid over vertical poles, the forerunner of the first tabernacle.2005, Martha Sonntag Bradley-Evans, “Evolving Roles and Diverse Expressions”, in Women in Utah History: Paradigm Or Paradox, University…. From the entry bowery
• Along one wall of the Motts' home is an array of kugels, or glass balls, antique forerunners of today's classic $3.99-a-dozen-at-the-local-drugstore ornaments.1990 December, John Morell, “OC Style: Yuletide Collectibles”, in Orange Coast: The Magazine of Orange County, volume 16, number 12, Costa…. From the entry kugel
• We may find ourselves going through stages foretyped by the forerunner and pioneer of our faith even as He died and arose again.1982, John Loren Sandford, Paula Sandford, The transformation of the inner man. From the entry foretype
• There is no doubt in my mind that it’s the forerunner of the Revived Roman Empire which the prophet Daniel spoke about with such certainty.1973, Hal Lindsey, “The Two Antichrists”, in There's a New World Coming: 'A Prophetic Odyssey' (Religion), Santa Ana, California: Vision…. From the entry Revived Roman Empire
• Midway between these lay the alto and tenor pommers, of which the former (the alto), was doubtless the forerunner of the cor anglais.1900, Musical News, page 378. From the entry pommer
• The foundations of the theory of binary quadratic forms, the forerunner of our modern theory of quadratic fields, were laid by Gauss in his famous Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.1990, Alan Baker, Transcendental Number Theory, Cambridge University Press, page 47. From the entry quadratic field
• The only possible forerunners of Marcuse are the theocrats of the Middle Ages and early Reformation who sought to eliminate science or deprive it of independence.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry theocrat
• They have been sometimes supposed to have been a branch of the Turkish tribes, while the Hiung-nu have been seen as Mongols, the forerunners of the Hūnas and Chionites.1957, Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford, editor, Antiquity, volumes 31–32, page 137. From the entry Tocharian
• The large baskets, called Bockeys (the old Dutch word for basket), used for toting this charcoal, were, I believe, the forerunners of the present-day Adirondack pack basket.1947 Spring, A. T. Shorey, “Ma and Pa Pitt”, in New York Folklore Quarterly, volume 3, number 1, page 38. From the entry bockey
• Except for the origin of platelets in the early embryo from a forerunner of the megakaryocyte, Wright recognizes no other source for blood platelets in mammals.1914, Wade H. Brown, “The histogenesis of blood platelets”, in Studies from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, page 69. From the entry megakaryocyte

Meaning of forerunner

1. noun A runner at the front or ahead.
2. noun By extension, a non-competitor who leads out the competitors on to the circuit, or who runs/rides the course prior to competitor trials, usually testing or checking the way.
3. noun A precursor or harbinger, a warning ahead.

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How do you use forerunner in a sentence?

Forerunner is used as a noun. For example: “Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.”

What is a short sentence with forerunner?

“Bakelite is a forerunner of today's plastics.”

What does forerunner mean?

Forerunner means a runner at the front or ahead.