presentiment

Example Sentences

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It’s the type of hazards and presentiment that feel inherent to womanhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2024

She opens the bag and it's full of money - another presentiment.

From The Guardian • Oct. 3, 2010

That image, the presentiment it carried, startled him out of his own morass, he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 23, 2010

Or maybe Mami had a presentiment of what was to come.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 15, 2010

A bite at light at Ruth a truth a sky-blue presentiment and oh how dear we are to ourselves when it comes, it comes, that long, long shadow in the grass.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver