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Meanings of portending in English
Usage of portending in English
1
Again the door of the inner office closed with a portending click.
2
The ancients ranked this with other celestial phenomena, as portending great events.
3
Outside, the sky was again dark and cloudy, portending even more rain.
4
But late in February there was a great bustle, portending movement.
5
For five minutes he was absent, then returned with a face portending news.
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Dreams and hallucinations portending violence increasingly plague Curtis, some of them perhaps even real.
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Dark clouds travel over the sky, portending rain: a rare phenomenon in these regions.
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Cutaneous manifestation of MM is an uncommon observation in clinical practice portending poor prognosis.
9
Landing on 20th June near Dublin, he heard news portending a speedy decision in Wexford.
10
Moviegoers liked Never Say Never and Just Go With It, portending good word of mouth.
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There seemed to be something back of the simple statement-anominous and portending "something."
12
If a woman gives birth to a child with the right nostril lacking, misfortune is portending.
13
In the twilight of his pallid face, his nose looked like a comet portending some public calamity.
14
A comet she seemed, portending a fiery doom to the hearts of many in that presence hall.
15
He was not free, however, from a belief in the significance of dreams as portending important events.
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It is a pathetic record, portending the final closing of Bermondsey Spa but a few years later.
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