Forerunner in a sentence as a noun

Not so that of his forerunner, who handles with ease the current Spanish of his time.

Lewitt's work could be seen as a forerunner or incunabulum in this field.

And all that but by now a lot of people in a lot of countries look to them as the forerunner in space research and I wish they'd realize that.

The reading of Brunel's "atmospheric caper" sounds somewhat a forerunner to one of Elon Musk's transport ideas.

SMP was one of the first commercial products designed to solve abstract mathematical problems, and is generally considered the forerunner to Mathematica.

The past which is wrong will be discontented in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive; if they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

Forerunner definitions

noun

a person who goes before or announces the coming of another

See also: precursor

noun

something that precedes and indicates the approach of something or someone

See also: harbinger predecessor herald precursor

noun

anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"

See also: antecedent