ominous

How To Use ominous In A Sentence

• Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street. Hodge and His Masters
• Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively.
• This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity.
• Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register.
• ‘Mäander’ is an incredible, multi-layered sound world of 4 or 5 layers of clarinets that is atonal, arrhythmic, ominous, and funereal.
• Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
• He couldn't stop looking the man's shiny gold tooth that glinted ominously in the streetlight.
• It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
• The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority.
• The sun had begun to set, making the sky and clouds a strangely ominous pinkish hue.