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Meanings of portentous in английском
Синонимы
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
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.
Usage of portentous in английском
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.
6
Tea was brought in by portentous, powdered footmen in scarlet and gold.
7
That would be the most portentous, the most awe-inspiring event in history.
8
The portentous tone of the Frenchman's words was born of bitter experience.
9
Perhaps because I'm more portentous than they are, she said, and smiled.
10
The dinner had portentous suggestiveness; the Leidchardt'stonians were at first rather difficult.
11
Anthony Hopkin's Odin also returns to deliver yet more portentous fatherly wisdom.
12
Black clouds hung in huge, portentous masses over, the vault of heaven.
13
There was something heavy, portentous, in the air of this June evening.
14
The amount of reading that has gone to it is almost portentous.
15
The opening is portentous and soon becomes a driving whirlwind of tone.
16
This is true, and it is what makes the present situation portentous.
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Portentous through the time
Portentous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common