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

One screech forebodes death; two screeches forebode success in any approaching undertaking; three, the addition of a girl to the family by marriage; four, a disturbance; five, that the hearer will travel.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

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

Yet my heart forebodes Danger or death awaits thee on this field.

From Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

One screech forebodes death; two screeches forebode success in any approaching undertaking; three, the addition of a girl to the family by marriage; four, a disturbance; five, that the hearer will travel.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

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

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

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

During all this time his preaching had increased in severity, latterly it had had a passionate ring which foreboded a storm.

From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

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

Clay's flourish of trumpets foreboded trouble and disturbance to the Jacksonian camp.

From Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

Brook's first act of the day was a foreboding one for England.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 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

Under the skylight of a 10-foot industrial ceiling is a cold, foreboding blacksmith’s forge — which, on an active day, would heat up to 2,500 degrees — surrounded by uncut, conical metal templates awaiting manipulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

For as the wind first filled their sail, both had felt a heavy foreboding, cold as that winter wind.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin