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Example sentences for "foreboding"

Lexicographically close words:
forebear; forebears; forebode; foreboded; forebodes; forebodings; forebore; forecast; forecasted; forecaster
  1. An uneasy, undefinable foreboding had come over him since the entrance of Monsieur Giraumont; this had been increased by the manner of Mr. Gawtrey.

  2. With an awful sense of foreboding and dread in his heart, the secretary was beginning to understand.

  3. It will be seen hereafter that this opposition had begun long before men’s minds were biassed in a new direction in consequence of a revolution in the political circumstances of Italy and the foreboding of evil to come.

  4. He lamented it in his poems—highly imaginative and lofty outpourings of a soul brightened with the fire of love, penetrated with the consciousness of the need for a higher development, tortured by a foreboding of approaching judgment.

  5. I am about to leave this country, with a heavy and foreboding heart; we may never meet again on earth.

  6. With a foreboding and chilled heart, Clarence bent forward; the face of his benefactor lay directly before him, and the hand of death was upon it.

  7. And what seemed a foreboding was pressing upon him as with slow pincers:--that his life might come to be enslaved by this helpless woman who had thrown herself upon him in the dreary sadness of her heart.

  8. No soul was prophetic enough to have any foreboding as to what might appear on the trial of Joshua Rigg.

  9. Dorothea's outpouring of her notions about money, in the darkness of the night, had done nothing but bring a mixture of more odious foreboding into her husband's mind.

  10. He spoke to Mrs. Ryder of his death as an event not far distant, and so went to his bedroom in a melancholy and foreboding state.

  11. But, though the smoke and masses of flame were rising only from one house, the wind was blowing a perfect gale; and a foreboding of the calamity impending seemed to possess the spectators.

  12. A vague foreboding filled his mind, he fancied that a bevy of mocking devils peered at him from out the wooded labyrinth, .

  13. An oppressive feeling overcame all the party--a foreboding of coming evil.

  14. The chaplet she had woven to crown him fell from her hands; a sad foreboding seized her, and as she saw at a distance, that they bore a bier, her eye wandered anxiously round for Alp.

  15. A Paka-yajna is a minor sacrifice, such as the propitiation of a planet foreboding evil, or worship offered to the inferior deities called Viswadevas.

  16. The air was filled with the strong fragrance of the pines, and across the blue strips of sky visible among the tree-tops stretched isolated gray clouds like menacing fingers foreboding a storm.

  17. A sudden inexplicable foreboding weighed upon her like lead.

  18. A nameless foreboding of some horrible calamity was upon him.

  19. Till wintry blasts foreboding blew Through leafless trees--and then I knew That Hope was all a dream.

  20. But as foreboding pressed upon him there came the thought of what should come after--to Rosalie.

  21. Under the influence of the fresh air and the quiet of the woods her spirits rose, her pulse beat faster, though a sense of foreboding and sorrow hovered round her.

  22. At the choir rehearsal on Saturday a foreboding came over her; occult malign influences seemed hovering in the air.

  23. Her foreboding of trouble had not been at fault however, for on Monday morning came a formal note of dismissal, worded with careful politeness; her services would not be required after the following Sunday.

  24. The dark cloud of discontent hung heavily over our people, too truly foreboding the storm of open rupture, and approaching revolution.

  25. A correspondent of the "Notes and Queries" mentions the Cricket's cry as foreboding good luck.

  26. Some inner foreboding tells Valois there is danger in the gambling duel of the two men he watches.

  27. Somethings rings with dull foreboding in his ears as his carriage rolls away.

  28. The gladness of the sun could no longer stir me; a chill and sense of foreboding bore me company as beside Nayland Smith I entered Cragmire Tower.

  29. Heavy with such a foreboding of calamity as I had not known for two years, I followed him--along the hall and out into the road.

  30. But we did not suffer ourselves to be depressed by this, nor had I any foreboding until the sound of a second hurried footstep mounting the stairs reached our ears.

  31. There is such a number of foreboding fears and distrustful anxieties crowd into my mind when I am in your company, or when I sit down to write to you, that what to speak or what to write, I am altogether at a loss.

  32. My foreboding ideas had the wide stretch of possibility; and several events, great in their magnitude, and important in their consequences, occurred to my fancy.

  33. A dread one, too, foreboding danger to innocent people.

  34. She, the mother, most interested of all, has a too true foreboding of it.

  35. With the glad sunshine my joyousness had vanished, in its stead came again doubt and foreboding with my devil that gibbered upon my heels; demons and evil things seemed all about me.

  36. Above and around me seemed an ever-growing shadow, a foreboding expectancy of an oncoming evil I could neither define nor shake off, try how I would.

  37. The Empress was already foreboding her fate; there was the stiffness of inaptitude about everything, even the amusement, and the languid weariness of the ladies was an unforgiven imperial sin.

  38. It was done, but an awful presentiment took possession of the Emperor that she had appeared like a crow foreboding a coming tempest.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "foreboding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abusive; affect; affection; agitated; agitation; anticipation; anxiety; anxious; apocalyptic; apprehension; apprehensive; bad; baleful; baneful; black; blustering; bothered; care; clairvoyance; concern; concerned; dark; denunciation; dire; disquiet; disquieted; distress; disturbance; disturbed; doubt; dread; dreary; emotion; evil; experience; fateful; fear; fearful; feeling; foreboding; forecast; forecasting; foreknowledge; foresight; forewarning; gloomy; grim; guesswork; hunch; ill; imminence; imminent; impression; inauspicious; inquietude; intimation; intimidating; intimidation; intuition; lowering; malaise; menace; menacing; minatory; misgiving; nervous; nervousness; omen; ominous; passion; perturbation; perturbed; portent; portentous; precautionary; precognition; precursory; prefiguration; premonition; premonitory; presage; presentiment; probability; prognosis; promise; prophecy; prospectus; pucker; qualm; reaction; response; sensation; sense; sentiment; sign; sinister; solicitous; solicitude; somber; sombre; speculation; stew; strain; strained; suspense; suspicion; tense; tension; terroristic; terrorizing; threat; threatening; trouble; troubled; undercurrent; uneasiness; uneasy; unfavorable; unfortunate; unlucky; unpromising; unpropitious; untoward; upset; vexation; warning; zeal; zealous