Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Showing results for "foreboding"
Search instead for offshorebohrung.
Definitions
Trivia Time
In Old English, foreboding was associated with what?

foreboding

[fawr-boh-ding, fohr-] / fɔrˈboʊ dɪŋ, foʊr- /


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

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

In Atlanta, her visionary cosmologies read as foreboding, otherworldly—paradise lost.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 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

All night he tried to choose his way, to plan where he should go, what he should do: but each choice, each plan was blocked by a foreboding of doom.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

All day, gray clouds clustered overhead, adding to forebodings, and ratifying forecasts of a gathering storm.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2022

The French government is relieved that its worst forebodings about the protests did not come to pass.

From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2018

Of course, all along there were forebodings, hints of the injuries and iniquities that so often seem to accompany utopias.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 26, 2016

This included a woman, her young child with a doll, the dead cat and forebodings about nuclear disaster and wave/particle duality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2014

Still full of forebodings of a hard winter, he foraged about for what he was sure was the last edible stuff on the island: various seeds, dry berries, mushrooms.

From "Abel's Island" by William Steig


Vocabulary lists containing foreboding

Random Word

Spin the wheel and learn a new word!

Get a word

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Just like flashcards, but way more fun

Don't take our word for it. Leave the boring studying behind and join VocabTrainer today. You'll learn even faster and never look back.

Take me to Vocabulary.com