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

My town friends, indeed, ascribe my sojourn here to a similar disposition, and forbode me no good result.

From On the Choice of Books by Carlyle, Thomas

But already I forbode the future, they will let us languish and perish, and then lament that they did not lend us assistance sooner.

From The Rebellion in the Cevennes, an Historical Novel Vol. I. by Tieck, Ludwig

The blackening wave is edged with white; To inch and rock the sea-mews fly; The fishers have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forbode that wreck is nigh.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner