portentous
Example Sentences
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Portentous, woozy background music was playing, as if an alien encounter was imminent.
From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2023
Portentous, considering that the current concentration of CO2, now more than 400 parts per million, is reaching a level not seen for perhaps three million years, since the Pliocene epoch.
From Scientific American • Jul. 20, 2017
Portentous polysyllables were a must: Fairport Convention was born.
From The Guardian • Apr. 10, 2010
Portentous as it looks on paper, the U.N.R. is, in fact, an inchoate alliance of a dozen political groups, still has not even formulated a party program.
From Time Magazine Archive
And often she appeared Majestic with celestial wrath, with eyes That shot forth fire, and a heavy brow, Portentous as the lowering front of heaven, When the reverberant, sullen thunder rolls Among the echoing clouds.
From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1 by Lazarus, Emma
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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