- present participle of portend.
portending
Example Sentences
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Portending what was to come, Anosike played for the Jordan Brand Classic City team at Madison Square Garden in April 2009, where the game program called him “a beast on the offensive and defensive boards.”
From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2012
Instead of this Is heard the mournful moan of the discourager, Portending peril, shipwreck, loss of all.
From Heart Utterances at Various Periods of a Chequered Life by Gurney, Eliza Paul
In iron clad Sometimes thy feature roughen to the sight, And oft transparent art thou seen in glass, Portending frangibility.
From Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by Billings, E. R.
Portending cares sit heavily on the young and inexperienced colonists.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
An horrid chasm disclos'd with orifice Wide, discontinuous; at which the winds Eurus and Auster, and the dreadful force Of Boreas, that congeals the Cronian waves, Tumultuous enter with dire chilling blasts, Portending agues.
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
