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Meanings of fateful in English
(Of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.
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Examples for "foreboding"
Examples for "foreboding"
1
I simply trudged behind him as my sense of grim foreboding grew.
2
Tiaan kept on, following his directions with an increasing sense of foreboding.
3
This year the sense of foreboding was made worse by the weather.
4
It was invariably cold, damp, gloomy and foreboding, particularly for the opposition.
5
He was living very much in the present-anugly and foreboding present.
1
But it was a portentous moment in Irish commercial and social history.
2
The political aspects of the times were now portentous in the extreme.
3
The situations of the principal powers of Europe are singular and portentous.
4
But there is something portentous in the change in Chichester, said Malling.
5
Such was the matter-of-fact manner in which the portentous news was announced.
Usage of fateful in English
1
Polanski was absent that fateful evening, working on a film in Europe.
2
After finishing work on that fateful day, he unwittingly contaminated his home.
3
No one knows exactly what happened to you on that fateful night.
4
Perhaps a local matchmaker who knew both families made the fateful introduction.
5
And that was how the fateful idea came to the Brimley Bomefields.
6
After ninety minutes of this riveting heresy, McNamara made three fateful decisions.
7
The storm that blasts the romance begins with the same fateful phrase.
8
Perhaps Aulus was trying to tell him something about that fateful day.
9
They should participate in the political process that produces this fateful summons.
10
They had survived the months since that fateful day of the ambush.
11
But our most fateful new challenge is the threat of global warming.
12
The fateful decision to attend that day would change his life forever.
13
On my way to the theater, I myself took a fateful turn.
14
Semel's decision to opt for this plan B was a fateful one.
15
The feeling of purpose, of fateful purpose, was strong in his breast.
16
On the side-walks the police keep step with him, silent and fateful.
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Fateful through the time
Fateful across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common