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

But methinks, your style and sentiments are too well connected, too full of life and vigour, to give cause for so much despair as thy staggering pen seems to forbode.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel

I wish it so may prove; my mind is a bad prophet to me, and what it does forbode of ill, it seldom fails to pay me.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

Even though what they had seen might forbode evil to some one, what power had they to avert it?

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne