forbode

Example Sentences

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The oppressive pressure, Raffles noted, “seemed to forbode an earthquake.”

From Scientific American • Mar. 1, 2013

The lyrics she has written in 1940 forbode Millay-things probably to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

This treacherous sort of calm, we thought, might forbode a storm, and we did not allow it to lull us into security.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 by Various

Still there was a quietness and a charm about this connexion that made him never forbode danger in it.

From The Home by Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham)

How could she forbode hatred, she who only knew love?

From Tales from Blackwood Volume 5 by Various