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

Some of these are believed to forebode prosperity, and others misery to the family into which the girl enters by marriage.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

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

It has only three legs, and if anyone meets it it forebodes death.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

"I will not be bound," said Grettir, "when I go into the water, so much my mind forebodes me."

From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. Chambers

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

He knew that it foreboded national convulsions and throes.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee

His friends warned him that these continual insults and depredations foreboded mischief, and that he ought not to submit to them.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child

“Lee” Xinyuan Li’s lighting heightens the sense of theatrical foreboding.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Since then, he feels a sense of foreboding whenever dark clouds signal the onset of another storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 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

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

The schematic of a dark, foreboding mountain range was scrawled on the paper, showing tunnels, access points, and exits.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia