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 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 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

One screech forebodes death; two screeches forebode success in any approaching undertaking; three, the addition of a girl to the family by marriage; four, a disturbance; five, that the hearer will travel.

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

Every one forebodes disasters; but none think of reforming their lives in order to escape the threatened evil.

From Tales From the 'Phantasus', etc. of Ludwig Tieck by Ludwig Tieck

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

Had he but once foreboded the woes that thence ensued, At that disastrous festal he ne'er had sat a guest, Ne'er had he seen the ruin of those he loved the best.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

One sat by his side fanning him as he slept, her hand on the feeble, fluctuating pulsations which foreboded sad results.

From Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. Edmonds

His heart, I ween, foreboded the deed that had been done, And that the childless father no more should see his son.

From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown

Her show has all the trappings of true-crime podcasts you’ve heard before—911 tape-recordings, foreboding music—but here’s the difference: The women at the center of these crimes are telling us their experiences.

From Slate ● Nov. 8, 2026

Then, with the foreboding intro and the tapping heel of a bedazzled platform pump, the delicious reveal of Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter singing “Sweet Transvestite” cemented that this experience would bond us for life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 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

Something, a sense of foreboding, filled me, a quick sense of uncleanliness.

From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison