forbode

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

Judith pushed her way into the house and seated herself on the bench, where she sat looking at him with an expression in her eyes that seemed to forbode revolt.

From Norston's Rest by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

And the emptied city cries aloud, while its booty is wasted amid confused clamors; verily I fearfully forbode heavy calamities.

From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Buckley, Theodore Alois

Outside, the evergreens were beaten down, and the loose strands of the different creepers were flogging wall and trellis-work in a way which forbode destruction to both tree and trellis.

From The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by Fenn, George Manville