forbode
Example Sentences
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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”
From Scientific American ● Mar. 1, 2013
The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.
From Time Magazine Archive
This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various
And the emptied city cries aloud, while its booty is wasted amid confused clamors; verily I fearfully forbode heavy calamities.
From Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes by Theodore Alois Buckley
Even though what they had seen might forbode evil to some one, what power had they to avert it?
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
