premonition

Example Sentences

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Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

The first part of Mulder's premonition has proven to be true - Hayen's Brugge beat Villa, Sporting and Sturm Graz in the group phase, as well as drawing with Juventus and Celtic.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2025

Our former faith in manifest destiny always included another possibility; let’s call it a premonition of manifest doom.

From Salon • Jan. 21, 2025

But Bruins safety Craig Rutledge had a premonition when he said, “As good as the conference is this year, you won’t win it with two losses.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 8, 2023

Was there some premonition, she would wonder, that made that moment so poignant, some foreknowledge that this was the last afternoon the three would ever spend together in the small cottage?

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare