portentous
Example Sentences
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She plans to sweep away the cobwebs and inject warmth and life into a farm mired in portentous dialogue and unmentionable secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Like the album, the trailer's atmosphere is brooding and portentous.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2025
That finale closing song selection, “The Windmills of Your Mind,” is spot-on and portentous; its lyrics speak of the dreamy confusion enveloping these two.
From Salon • Mar. 22, 2025
Unable to persuade a majority of the commission to endorse their deficit-cutting recommendations, Simpson and Bowles took it upon themselves to issue a list under the portentous title “The Moment of Truth.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025
The chaplain’s first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Vocabulary lists containing portentous
Romeo and Juliet
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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The Great Gatsby
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