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 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 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

I forebode now that my long neglect of the child from mere selfish love of ease will be bitterly avenged upon me.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin

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

A final aria by the Count leads to the last chorus, in which the repetition of the triplet gallop forebodes the ride into the desert and the punishment of the page.

From The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

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

His heart, I ween, foreboded the deed that had been done, And that the childless father no more should see his son.

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

Those streaks on the horizon foreboded evil weather, as Luke had feared.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch

In Atlanta, her visionary cosmologies read as foreboding, otherworldly—paradise lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2026

Jenkin has suggested his latest is a commentary on sacrifice and community, but any concrete theory of “Rose of Nevada” risks allowing his enigmatic puzzle to lose its shattering spell of mystery and foreboding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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

Instead, the moment I stepped through the doors, my skin crawled with an anxious foreboding.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros