forebode

Example Sentences

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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

What he had not yet learned was that the market, no matter how fundamentally strong, is always sensitive�not just to one day's happenings in Washington, but to what the events may forebode for the future.

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