forebode

During the present year the Irish newspapers reported the discovery of the apparition of a black pig in the district of Kiltrustan… which caused much alarm, and was supposed to forebode some serious national disaster.

From Nature ● Dec. 17, 2018

Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not.

From Time Magazine Archive

The leading company rode off as swiftly as they could, for it was still deep dark, whatever change Wídfara might forebode.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

The police, whenever my mother forebode, would indeed come, and many of the men of the yard would be caught napping, surrendering themselves with lamblike submission.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

The wooden bars had been set back into their sockets, as though to forebode the occupation of their enclosure by an enemy.

From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena

It’s 1833 in Friel’s fictional small town, Ballybeg, where a sweet, putrid smell rising from the potato fields forebodes famine and an ingress of redcoats threatens to blight the local heritage.

From New York Times ● Dec. 11, 2023

A Game 7 loss at home for the fourth season in a row — 2-1 to the Nashville Predators in the first round Wednesday — forebodes consequences potentially more severe than previous years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2016

‘You have chosen the Evening; but my love is given to the Morning. And my heart forebodes that soon it will pass away for ever.’

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

And yet my heart forebodes much evil hap.

From Turandot, Princess of China A Chinoiserie in Three Acts by Jethro Bithell

Now death with all its Terrors disappears, And all I fear 's a dreadful Something-after; My Mind forebodes a horrid, woful Scene, Where Guilt is chain'd and tortur'd with Despair.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Montrose Jonas Moses

The sky was utterly dark, and the stillness of the heavy air foreboded storm.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

But it is foreboded that that will only be when we have both lost all that we now have.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

This was an occurrence that foreboded them no good.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown

Ill foreboded Ludegast from such a foe at hand.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

The future was heavily clouded, and behind the clouds visible he foreboded others.

From Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

In Atlanta, her visionary cosmologies read as foreboding, otherworldly—paradise lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026

But a 0.1-percent dip in food services sales could reflect that people are opting to drive less -- a foreboding sign for broader spending in the services sector.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

Under the skylight of a 10-foot industrial ceiling is a cold, foreboding blacksmith’s forge — which, on an active day, would heat up to 2,500 degrees — surrounded by uncut, conical metal templates awaiting manipulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Our trusted sources in Iran spoke with opposition activists, human rights lawyers and independent journalists and found a mood of foreboding.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

Luis Alvarez, who was named the MTA’s chief designer, accepted the job with a distinct sense of foreboding.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik