What is "forerunners"

Usage examples of "forerunners".

For a while he lay wondering whether maybe the Forerunners had gone the way of Earth and that was why they were no longer around and what they might have become by now.

Did the Forerunners predict it, way back when they or their machines were scouting this neighborhood?

Though if the sun was lonesome, I thought the Forerunners might have orbited something of their own anyhow.

No, Lissa thought, the Forerunners would have means more subtle than an energy blast.

We just told that we had certain interesting clues to the Forerunners, which the Susaians might like to discuss with us confidentially.

Earth probably has things to tell that the Forerunners find worth hearing, as well as vice versa.

How could the Forerunners know exactly what the planet would be like millions of years in the future?

Now the forerunners came into their own, and from here to the Pole Hassel.

Bjaaland, who had now left the company of the drivers and been received with jubilation into that of the forerunners, was immediately entrusted with the honourable task of leading the expedition forward to the Pole itself.

Yezda spied the forerunners just as they were coming out of the river.

They would be enough to panic the imperials, who would surely see them as the forerunners of worse.

In that same year the OGPU, forerunners of the NKVD, had come looking for Novgerod Mandelstim.

They sprang up in dozens from the ground where their forerunners had laid themselves to sleep when weary of their work.