portent

Example Sentences

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The front doors were broken, an employee explained, so that wasn’t necessarily a portent.

From Washington Post

Ellie’s reluctant guardian is a broken man — and an ill portent for her future.

From Washington Post

That is why the 10 percent trim in performances for next season is a portent of what’s to come.

From New York Times

Foraging once more in her garden of memories, Hogg turns up dark tendrils of suspense and quasi-supernatural portent.

From Los Angeles Times

But it was precisely the sort of telling, seemingly minor and idiosyncratic act that poets and playwrights since time immemorial have locked onto as character portents of destiny.

From Salon