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

At the actual state of things the Vicar, for his part, shrewdly guessed, but being a sensible man forebode to interfere.

From The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier by Bertram Mitford

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

The first half of the play, though it forebodes tragedy, is not decisively tragic in tone.

From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley

I once knew a maiden aunt, of a great family, who is one of these antiquated sybils, that forebodes and prophesies from one end of the year to the other.

From Apparitions; or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed by Joseph Taylor

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

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

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

Those streaks on the horizon foreboded evil weather, as Luke had feared.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch

Clay's flourish of trumpets foreboded trouble and disturbance to the Jacksonian camp.

From Thomas Hart Benton by Theodore Roosevelt

His coming back so soon foreboded ill news; he would hardly have returned at such inclement season, but to warn us.

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

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

"I had that foreboding of what life was going to be, and I was getting pretty good on the guitar, so I sold my birthday presents to raise the money to go to Sweden."

From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026

It’s not so much a scream queen kind of horror; it’s this foreboding horror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

In contrast, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, concluded its answers to a user’s questions about weapons selection with a foreboding farewell.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026

A foreboding, clammy and fearful, came into her heart as if, along with the visitor whose name was so strange yet somehow familiar, some menace had slipped into her life.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke