betoken

Example Sentences

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This “Cyrano” centers the freedom that new forms of drama betoken, and all the ways that the writing of the past can feed them — from Rostand to Emily Dickinson.

From Washington Post

Set designer Donald Eastman places the action in an airy courtyard of broken concrete slabs — the cracks in the cement betokening the fissures that will symbolically swallow up Floyd.

From Washington Post

Against this, the pure symmetry of her face betokens celestial harmonies, while her figure is improbably — dreamily — sinuous.

From Washington Post

Has there ever been a year before this one when the coming of a major national holiday betokens not joy, but sickness and death?

From Los Angeles Times

Such a result would betoken a disastrous night for Trump, and it could well be a fantasy.

From The Guardian