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Ominous
"Ominous" in a Sentence (14 examples)
The sky looks ominous. I wonder if it will rain.
"Really, my lady" stammered out the haberdasher, after what appeared to us to be a most ominous pause, "I am deeply sensible of your ladyship's patronage, and the patronage of your ladyship's niece."
That sounds ominous.
There was an ominous silence.
At the ominous word "liberality", Scrooge frowned, and shook his head, and handed the credentials back.
That sure sounds ominous.
The ominous thunderstorm in the distance was gaining speed and strength.
All agreed that the spot was fatal to the Ravenswood family; and that to drink of the waters of the well, or even approach its brink, was ominous to a descendant of that house.
It was on this ominous spot that Lucy Ashton first drew breath after her long and almost deadly swoon.
From somewhere in the distance came an ominous rumble.
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In Cornouaille, Brittany, it is popularly believed that the weather of the last six days of December and the first six of January prognosticates the weather of the twelve months; but in other parts of Brittany it is the first twelve days of January that are supposed to be ominous of the weather for the year.
California poll support for Jerry Brown's tax increases has ominous implications for U.S. taxpayers too Los Angeles Times Headline April 25, 2011
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
After growing substantially in the 1990s and modestly in the 2000s, the total number of American kids fell from 2010 through 2019, an ominous milestone.
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