What is "foreshadowed"

Usage examples of "foreshadowed".

I must indeed have looked like a grotesque bird, a raven or crow, especially with those coat-tails dragging over the asphalt highway like a train or a huge mop and leaving a broad majestic track, which filled Oskar with pride whenever he looked back, and foreshadowed, if it did not symbolize, the tragic fate, not yet fully implemented, that slumbered within him.

It read fast and the road scene foreshadowed a scene that would come much later in the book.

And he was deeply moved by it, as if the dread of the catastrophe which it foreshadowed would henceforth upset his life.

For my closest followers, all it foreshadowed was a period of waiting.