forbode

Example Sentences

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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

Taken in connection with the close watch kept upon him, he could forbode no good from it.

From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Reid, Mayne

Straight would to horse the margrave, and with his warriors ride I ween, their hearts that moment their coming doom forbode.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

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