forebode

During the present year the Irish newspapers reported the discovery of the apparition of a black pig in the district of Kiltrustan… which caused much alarm, and was supposed to forebode some serious national disaster.

From Nature ● Dec. 17, 2018

Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not.

From Time Magazine Archive

The leading company rode off as swiftly as they could, for it was still deep dark, whatever change Wídfara might forebode.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The police, whenever my mother forebode, would indeed come, and many of the men of the yard would be caught napping, surrendering themselves with lamblike submission.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The wooden bars had been set back into their sockets, as though to forebode the occupation of their enclosure by an enemy.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

It’s 1833 in Friel’s fictional small town, Ballybeg, where a sweet, putrid smell rising from the potato fields forebodes famine and an ingress of redcoats threatens to blight the local heritage.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

A Game 7 loss at home for the fourth season in a row — 2-1 to the Nashville Predators in the first round Wednesday — forebodes consequences potentially more severe than previous years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2016

‘You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

I fear me the night forebodes a storm.——Carlos,

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby

But the presence of these men means little and forebodes, in reality, a slight accentuation of the gravity of the actual situation.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

Carlton House Terrace had a depressing, derelict appearance that foreboded the departure of its lord.

From The Sixth Sense A Novel by Stephen McKenna

Had he but once foreboded the woes that thence ensued, At that disastrous festal he ne'er had sat a guest, Ne'er had he seen the ruin of those he loved the best.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Ah! she foreboded but too well, that in this world she should not see him any more.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

He added that Anglesey fitted the brief: "It can be absolutely stunning but has a foreboding quality."

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

“Lee” Xinyuan Li’s lighting heightens the sense of theatrical foreboding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Since then, he feels a sense of foreboding whenever dark clouds signal the onset of another storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

But a 0.1-percent dip in food services sales could reflect that people are opting to drive less -- a foreboding sign for broader spending in the services sector.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

As we get closer, we see the house is surrounded by a foreboding iron fence.

From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish