premonition
Example Sentences
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We sat now, waiting for 9:30, tense and upright in the high-backed wooden chairs, avoiding as if by a kind of premonition the cushioned and comfortable seats.
From Literature
This imagining stems less from a premonition of the future than a feeling of how deeply she has shaped my present.
From Los Angeles Times
Oddly, that cigar turned out to be an unwitting premonition.
“I always feel people become more themselves when they’re in their house,” Reinsve tells me on a cloudless autumn morning at Hollyhock House, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1921 premonition of California modernism.
From Los Angeles Times
On the day they finally got him, Mercedes said her husband must have felt “a premonition” because he left his keys and phone in the family car.
From Los Angeles Times
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