forebode

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile Nathan Johnson’s score of scratchy cellos and foreboding horns pairs well with a dramatic burst of organ music — one of many goofy-great jump scares goosed up by the editor Bob Ducsay.

From Los Angeles Times

Stars came twinkling into view, in a strangely foreboding sky.

From New York Times

The foreboding entrance into the Intermezzo gave way to spindly figures scooped from the piano by Trifonov before he led the orchestra to a bristling climax.

From Washington Post

It carries all the hope and foreboding of expectation, all the beautiful dread of what could happen, what you could do, but with no promises or guarantees.

From Salon

“I had this odd, foreboding feeling that that could happen again and again. I began to think about how I wanted to tell stories within this new reality.”

From Seattle Times