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 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

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

It seems to forebode not only the death of all real National aspirations, but the death of heart and soul.

From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by T. O. Russell

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

Here sits he shaping wings to fly; His heart forebodes a mystery: He names the name Eternity.

From Through Nature to God by John Fiske

A comet sometimes forebodes wars, and sometimes mere brawls!

From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by George Rapall Noyes

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

And so the victim of imagination was delivered from the storm of persecution which he had foreboded would be renewed on the succeeding day.

From Wise Saws and Modern Instances, Volume II (of 2) by Thomas Cooper

She had already discovered in Mildred a firmness of character, resembling, if not equalling, her own; and she was rather afraid that this night's tranquillity foreboded a stormy morrow.

From Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. by William Davy Watson

His friends warned him that these continual insults and depredations foreboded mischief, and that he ought not to submit to them.

From The Freedmen's Book by Lydia Maria Francis Child

Then, with the foreboding intro and the tapping heel of a bedazzled platform pump, the delicious reveal of Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter singing “Sweet Transvestite” cemented that this experience would bond us for life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

But Yangskit says she had a strange sense of foreboding that night: "I wondered if I was ever going to see him again."

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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

Under the skylight of a 10-foot industrial ceiling is a cold, foreboding blacksmith’s forge — which, on an active day, would heat up to 2,500 degrees — surrounded by uncut, conical metal templates awaiting manipulation.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

Moody raised his wand, and Harry felt a sudden thrill of foreboding.

From "Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire" by J. K. Rowling