betoken

Example Sentences

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And though releasing a series in the last week of the year doesn’t exactly betoken confidence, I can predict with some confidence that there might be one.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 26, 2025

This “Cyrano” centers the freedom that new forms of drama betoken, and all the ways that the writing of the past can feed them — from Rostand to Emily Dickinson.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

But it doesn’t betoken a path to profitability, in part because the improvement reflected an intensified squeeze on drivers.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2019

Banks employ armies of people in back offices, looking for discrepancies that may betoken fraud or honest error.

From Economist • Mar. 22, 2018

Our red coats, our horses, and the presence of the hounds, did not betoken the chase, they merely indicated that the Hunt was about to be photographed.

From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin