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

I forebode now that my long neglect of the child from mere selfish love of ease will be bitterly avenged upon me.

From Countess Erika's Apprenticeship by Ossip Schubin

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

But the presence of these men means little and forebodes, in reality, a slight accentuation of the gravity of the actual situation.

From The Siege of Mafeking (1900) by J. Angus Hamilton

If it touches the legs of any of them, it forebodes that he will be killed by a tiger.

From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

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

Friday, 27th.—Such a morning as the evening of yesterday foreboded; rather chilly and misty, and as near an approach to winter as Upper Egypt may be expected to afford.

From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington

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

During all this time his preaching had increased in severity, latterly it had had a passionate ring which foreboded a storm.

From In God's Way A Novel by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Brook's first act of the day was a foreboding one for England.

From BBC ● Jun. 20, 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

Artisanal makers of goat cheeses can be found along undulating roads through greenery that dead end at the foreboding promontory of Cabo Espichel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

Astonished, gaping after the birds, the men felt their hearts flood, foreboding things to come.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer