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

No, Gentlemen, you are natural judges of the difficulties which beset us, and they are doubtless greater than I can even fancy or forbode.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

I wish it so may prove; my mind is a bad prophet to me, and what it does forbode of ill, it seldom fails to pay me.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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