Some sentence examples which use the word 'prefigure'
Scientists prefigured a head on collision between the comet Dutta and the Earth.
The lower forms of life prefigure man in unequal degrees of imperfection; they exist for his sake, but they are not regarded as representing necessary antecedent conditions of human existence.
It does not reflect a simple linear developmental logic, nor does it prefigure a world society or a world community.