What is "foreseen"

Usage examples of "foreseen".

He should also have foreseen her claim of authority, and avoided the direct confrontation with it.

Evidently someone had foreseen that the interior gravity fields might go.

He had also reminded himself that day not to take the arterial route back into Jerhattan but he had not foreseen one slight delay at the gasoline station which caused him to change his mind and take the fateful route, forgetful of his own prognostication.

Henry knew the problem, had foreseen this situation, but he was human enough to like to see people squirm.

What couldn't have been foreseen were the astonishing predicaments which had entangled her.

Mairi again had foreseen the need for small fires, more cheerful than effective as light sources but certainly beacons in the dismal night.

They were, as Ussie had foreseen, not biddable and had such short attention spans that he could never get them to strike the right pose, or assume an even halfway cheerful expression.

But who could have foreseen that, much less the plague, on the bright cold, season day?

From the quick look he shot at the Weyrleaders, they were expecting it, but they hadn't foreseen a proper instrumental accompaniment.

Frankly, Lessa had not foreseen F'lessan making such an attachment but the combination had lasted well past mating, and Zaranth was as supportive of the bronze as her rider was of the man.

Who could ever have foreseen he would pass on that tale, let alone that he would have a minstrel for a son?

I should have foreseen he would try to reach the cat, I should have known this could happen.

He told you he had foreseen his death on Aslevjal, and that you must somehow prevent the Prince from slaying the black dragon.

I wondered, briefly, if she had ever foreseen this moment, if she had ever imagined the look of my back as I walked away.

And how could I not have foreseen that Molly’s children, including Nettle, might see me as an interloper in their household?