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

Though it got pretty bad reviews at the time, it now looks like a presentiment of the trauma launched on New York on 9/11.

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2020

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

From The New Yorker • Mar. 15, 2010

Maybe it was a presentiment, maybe it was the sort of destiny that Yiddish calls “goyrl.”

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 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