A sign that is supposed to reveal whether the future will be favourable or not.
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.
6 I exclaimed, full of forboding .
7 When my ugly friend once more appeared with a command "to the stirrup irons;" back I went, forboding the disaster which swiftly came.
8 I saw dangers ahead, but as I have never cared to cherish forbodings I dismissed the idea.
9 "I read of the terrible accident, and my mind was full of forboding . "
10 "Anita." That one word slithered across my skin, thick and full of forboding .
11 Even Old Mammy forgot for a time her gloomy forbodings , and was quite cheerful as she helped Jean to unpack some of their household belongings.
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