We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of foreboding in English
Catalan
pressentiment Synonyms
Examples for "fateful"
Examples for "fateful"
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.
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 foreboding in English
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.
6
Sometimes its weight makes me happy; sometimes it fills me with foreboding.
7
And again the man in all his strength felt that dread foreboding.
8
Under that hot stabbing stare he rode on feeling a new foreboding.
9
His face blanched; his heart sank with a certain foreboding of evil.
10
We say foreboding because in this case it is not mistaken diction.
11
For a moment we hesitated, the same foreboding in both our minds.
12
With each street we checked I felt an increasing sense of foreboding.
13
Some dim sense of foreboding was beginning to steal in upon him.
14
But she found her colleagues still in a condition of pessimistic foreboding.
15
She gave Spencer a final foreboding look and disappeared around the corner.
16
Unlike Gavin, the only sense I was getting was one of foreboding.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Foreboding through the time
Foreboding across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common