- 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
Here, fierce and red, Portending storms, Orion lifts his head; And here the Dogs their raging fury shed.
From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de
These are at peace; but, Mars, why art thou bent On kindling thus the Scorpion, his tail Portending evil and his claws aflame?
From Pharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil Wars by Lucan
Portending cares sit heavily on the young and inexperienced colonists.
From My Tropic Isle by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
