[ US /fɔɹˈboʊdɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːbə‍ʊdɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a feeling of evil to come
    a steadily escalating sense of foreboding
    the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case
  2. an unfavorable omen
ADJECTIVE
  1. ominously prophetic
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How To Use foreboding In A Sentence

  • His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.
  • A sense of unease and foreboding quickly descended on the crowded chamber, followed by a hush minutes later when confirmation came through of what had happened.
  • As Mrs Varden distinctly heard, and was intended to hear, all that Miggs said, and as these words appeared to convey in metaphorical terms a presage or foreboding that she would at some early period droop beneath her trials and take an easy flight towards the stars, she immediately began to languish, and taking a volume of the Manual from a neighbouring table, leant her arm upon it as though she were Hope and that her Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty
  • The colorful scenes tend to be counterbalanced by some dark and foreboding sets, and many shots feature subdued lighting that tends to strain shadow detail.
  • Without waiting for a reply, Mr. McGuffey dropped back into his department and Captain Scraggs, his soul filled with rage and dire forebodings, repaired to the galley, and "candled" four dozen eggs. Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates
  • The school holds over 2, 500 young people in a massive brick structure that can only be described as foreboding.
  • In the space of only a few months, the word SARS has rolled around the world, bringing panic and fear to some places and a sense of foreboding to others.
  • The term presentiment suggests a sense of foreboding, a vague feeling of danger, an intuitive hunch that something not quite right is about to unfold. ENTANGLED MINDS
  • But the face into which he had gazed across the candle-flame had been neither tamed, nor troubled by any foreboding.
  • Then she stepped beyond the threshold of the dark and foreboding hole in the mountain, and turned on the lights at each side of her helmet.
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