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
The wretched woman was in despair; many of her neighbors had now returned and the prolonged absence of her Tunis seemed to forbode that he had either been killed or captured by the enemy.
From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by James Riker
"The Peace Treaty," wrote Italy's most influential journal, "and its correlate forbode for the near future the Continental hegemony of France countersigned by the Anglo-American alliance."
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Emile Joseph Dillon
I wish it so may prove; my mind is a bad prophet to me, and what it does forbode of ill, it seldom fails to pay me.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Sir Walter Scott
