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Meanings of portending in English
Synonyms
Examples for "abode"
Examples for "abode"
1
The abode of the gods; The conditioned promise of godhood in Man.
2
The heads of the Levites, princes in their families, abode in Jerusalem.
3
And we abode in the valley over against the temple of Phogor.
4
The young bridegroom abode in the palace one hundred and one weeks.
5
And there abode no more but the trunk only in the place.
1
I decided to take that as a good omen and kept walking.
2
Adeline turned pale; and Mortimer himself shuddered as he beheld the omen.
3
It is a bad omen to wet the foot in these springs.
4
This is a good omen for the release of her next project.
5
The whelp, as an omen of evil, is mentioned in the Edda.
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
The Irish Times saw the event as a portent of better times:
2
Neither brother had expected a moment so fraught, so heady with portent.
3
The sun-star exhibited a golden halo of ice crystals, portent of change.
4
It was nothing less than a portent of what was to come.
5
On the other hand, to Thyrsis he was a portent of terror.
1
Such gayety; such jokes; such bravado; and augury of the to be!
2
The whole scene was of evil augury for the defence of Paris.
3
This was not a happy augury for the head of the family.
4
Romulus had raised the first body with the customary ceremony of augury.
5
They defy critical augury, in their unending quest of beauty and truth.
1
She stayed very still with her eyes open wide, filled with forboding.
2
Where in one night both of us dreamed a dream forboding things to come.
3
It is complete statistical nonsense that sounds forboding but is absolutely and entirely meaningless.
4
She dreaded to open the letter, for a strange forboding of evil came over her.
5
A sense of forboding washed over her.
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.
6
Dreams and hallucinations portending violence increasingly plague Curtis, some of them perhaps even real.
7
Dark clouds travel over the sky, portending rain: a rare phenomenon in these regions.
8
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.
11
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.
16
It is a pathetic record, portending the final closing of Bermondsey Spa but a few years later.
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