How To Use Ill-omened In A Sentence
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The building narrative progresses through ill-omened and distorted imagery of horses ill in a hospital and gaping splits in reality.
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She broke the walls of His study, setting every ill-omened text of unclean lore alight.
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I was reminded of Maxwell Smart's ill-omened Cone of Silence.
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And as in the words akolouthos and akoitis the alpha is substituted for an omicron, so the name Apollon is equivalent to omopolon; only the second lambda is added in order to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction (apolon).
Cratylus
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On the second day of October, her evil family gave to her two ill-omened crows.
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I am not certain I could strike at any one of the ill-omened Wade family without partaking of your curse myself.
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I could feel a maddening mixture of emotions percolating inside of me, and I had the distinct, ill-omened feeling that everything was going to rush to a boiling point tonight.
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His birthday was ill-omened, for it found him afflicted by influenza.
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Why did Ella and I have to go to that ominous, ill-omened party on that fateful, fateful day?
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When his wife saw this, she said, “I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;” and he answered her, saying, “All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Benny Lynch originated the stereotype of the ill-omened Scottish champion.
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There are some fifty of these marks, some of them (like a spiral of hair in the breast which denotes that the rider is a cuckold) so ill-omened that the animal can be bought for almost nothing.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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To quote The Master of Ballantrae: ‘Something speaks in my bosom; and so much it says plain - that this is an ill-omened journey.’
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The psychic unease that Faulkner weaves into Quentin's obsession with the girl foreshadows an ill-omened conclusion.
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I made him pose as my significant other at Penelope's party on that ill-omened day.
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Disease, urban contamination and quickened mortality were ill-omened consequences of this noxious abyss.
Petrol Queen snippet
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When this ill-omened ship lay in Boston harbor, previous to her last and fatal cruise, she could not get men; and that from the impression on the minds of sailors, that _she was an unlucky ship_.
A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In Engla
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The two of them were destined to travel together round the world before Sir Henry had become once more the hale, hearty man that he had been before he became master of that ill-omened estate.
The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
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The pineys are a collection of Appalachian-esque people so inbred and ill-omened they are basically cut off from the rest of the world, both by choice and by circumstance.
Archive 2010-07-01
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I once had a Danish friend, now dead, who told me that his ancestor had aimed the ill-omened cannon, and claimed that it was out of penance that he became a professor of classics in a Canadian university.
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During the tour visitors walk to an impressive overlook to peer into the ill-omened pools of bubbling, black, steaming liquid.
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According to Sontag, cancer is often ‘felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, and repugnant to the senses.’
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The ill-omened page of postmodern historicism has been definitively turned.
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Benny Lynch originated the stereotype of the ill-omened Scottish champion.
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When his wife saw this, she said, "I have no occasion for thee, now thou are become pegless as a eunuch, shaven and shorn;" and he answered her, saying, "All this comes of thine ill-omened counsel and thine imbecile judgment.
Arabian nights. English
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Ill-omened hag! unshriven be her sins nor mercy visit her on dying bed, i.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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With this ill-omened report in his hand, Goering stepped out of the door of Hitler's salon.
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Devil, whilk is but an ill-omened drouthy name for a tavern.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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The good news, therefore, is that naturally unlucky people don't have to accept their apparently ill-omened fates.
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Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind.
The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars
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And as in the words akolouthos and akoitis the a is substituted for an o, so the name Apollon is equivalent to omopolon; only the second l is added in order to avoid the ill-omened sound of destruction (apolon).
The CRATYLUS
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But here's an even stranger thing, and thrice ill-omened at that.
A TIME OF WAR
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What had seemed at the time an auspicious occasion had turned out to be the most ill-omened event in his life.
A Girl's Legs Stirring The Air
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The breathless void of the sea was wantonly rousted out, as an ill-omened wind hailed from the east.
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Then the rising ululation of what he knew was a siren but still sounded to him like that ill-omened bird of night rose to a climax.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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So too the fiendish destruction of the public and private Hermes figures in Athens two years earlier, on the ill-omened eve of sailing of the Athenian armada for Sicily.
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Lord Breon told him that owls were considered ill-omened in some parts; it was said that if an owl landed on one's house three nights in a row and called, someone in the house would die.
Elephant in the City
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Friend Porlock is evidently scared out of his senses -- kindly com - pare the writing in the note to that upon its envelope; which was done, he tells us, before this ill-omened visit.
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