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
Nothing uneven in the slight vibration of the ship; nothing that might possibly forbode trouble.
From Hawk Carse by Anthony Gilmore
No, Gentlemen, you are natural judges of the difficulties which beset us, and they are doubtless greater than I can even fancy or forbode.
From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman
Still there was a quietness and a charm about this connexion that made him never forbode danger in it.
From The Home by Mary (Mary Botham) Howitt
