Vocabulary Word
Word: forerunner
Definition: predecessor; one that comes before and indicates the approach of another
Definition: predecessor; one that comes before and indicates the approach of another
Sentences Containing 'forerunner'
The steam turbine is very much more efficient than its forerunner, the steam engine.
If the complete improvement and cultivation of the country be, as it most certainly is, the greatest of all public advantages, this rise in the price of all those different sorts of rude produce, instead of being considered as a public calamity, ought to be regarded as the necessary forerunner and attendant of the greatest of all public advantages.
I may repeat what I published in 1845, namely, that to admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct--to feel no surprise at the rarity of a species, and yet to marvel greatly when the species ceases to exist, is much the same as to admit that sickness in the individual is the forerunner of death--to feel no surprise at sickness, but, when the sick man dies, to wonder and to suspect that he died by some deed of violence.
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