Sentence example with the word 'presage'

presage

actuarial prediction, bode, forebode, foreseeability, fortune-tell, improbability, preapprehension, premonition, prognosis, read palms, tell fortunes

Definition n. a foreboding about what is about to happen

Last update: February 19, 2016


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Dark clouds usually presage rain.   [verb]

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A quick glance at the sky to reassure myself that the scudding clouds did not presage rain.   [Please select]

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The experiences of China and Yugoslavia only presage more far-reaching developments to come.   [Please select]

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It was not difficult, however, to foretell the result, if any presage could be drawn from the feelings of those who crowded the place.   [Please select]

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This pleased me and seemed like the first presage of victory.   [Please select]

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Neither was I mistaken in my presage.   [Please select]

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--a feast a thousand times more delicious than my most sanguine hopes presaged.   [Please select]

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From this my choice of an era the understanding critic may farther presage that the object of my tale is more a description of men than manners.   [Please select]

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He could scarcely report from Pelusium an omen of darker presage.   [Please select]

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In time I forgot the circumstance, though there was much talk of it as a presage of the Messiah.   [Please select]

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I hope it is not a presage of misfortune.   [Please select]

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