- present participle of portend.
portending
Example Sentences
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Portending what was to come, Anosike played for the Jordan Brand Classic City team at Madison Square Garden in April 2009, where the game program called him “a beast on the offensive and defensive boards.”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2012
An horrid chasm disclos'd with orifice Wide, discontinuous; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter with dire chilling blasts, Portending agues.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
Here, fierce and red, Portending storms, Orion lifts his head; And here the Dogs their raging fury shed.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
Instead of this Is heard the mournful moan of the discourager, Portending peril, shipwreck, loss of all.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
Behold that awful sign of evil, Portending woe to me, poor devil!
From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred
