Sentence example with the word 'portent'

portent

adumbration, betokening, fatality, foretoken, meaning, portentousness, premonitory sign, presentiment, promise, soothsay

Definition n. a sign of something about to happen

Last update: September 3, 2015


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Some people believe that a cat crossing the road before us is a portent of something unpleasant.   [noun]

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Bedford on Sunday leads with Rent increase a portent of doom.   [noun]

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The deaths of Joy Gardner and others at the hands of immigration officers are a portent for the future.   [noun]

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They had escaped from his burdened soul when he heard of another portent, of which a ship from Ostia had brought tidings.   [noun]

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And the equine portent grows again, magnified in the deserted heavens, nay to heaven's own magnitude, till it looms, vast, over the house of Virgo.   [noun]

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The barghest was essentially a nocturnal spectre, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death.   [Please select]

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The stillness grew in portent; the forest creatures moved more furtively.   [Please select]

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Harding, arrived in the upper House early enough to see the portent of Mr.   [Please select]

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"You don't think I'm just a slow American sort of portent."'   [Please select]

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'' Chrysippus wrote a volume on dreams as divine portent.   [Please select]

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Both sides, with equal justice, claimed the portent as a manifestation of the Divine Opinion.   [Please select]

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