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.
Sometimes Carlie hands me the squirt bottle of "Bam" (an acronym for something that begins, ominously, with "butyric" - the rest of it has been worn off the label) and lets me do the bathrooms. Nickel and Dimed
These are ominous signs of God's holiness and the threat of judgment to the unholy.
Clouds loomed ominously over the beach on Saturday, but the rain stayed away.
Dawn, despite its revelation of an ominous pall hanging over the mountains, found us hitching towards Cairngorm.
He spoke ominously of the world facing "a war in Europe and possibly something greater".
An unexploded bomb is lodged ominously in the courtyard, a neat visual allegory for the sense of imminent threat in the film. Times, Sunday Times
Only down the side of this trickled moisture which had stained the stone with encrusta - tions and given life to some strange and ominous-looking growths pallidly yellow and dankly gray in the globe light. Flight in Yiktor
The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
Ominously, the party had also announced its intention to liberalize the sector.
And the dinginess of the article produced at last out of an omnium-gatherum sort of kitchen cupboard, made an ominous impression upon the country girl, accustomed Mistress and Maid. A Household Story.
It's like floating through storm clouds, getting lost in the at-once bright and ominous sound.
People were watching a half-filled water cooler that was emitting an ominous rumbling sound.
They wrote me a very ominous e-mail saying if I relisted the item horrible things would happen to me.
Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.
An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts? Times, Sunday Times
It is a precious boon to be rid of such an unnatural and ominous belief as that in the final disemboguing of the dead by sea and land, the tumbling of the rocks, the falling of the stars, and the everlasting torture of the condemned in a prison of fire. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
The report is a much more dire and ominous assessment of the situation than has previously been forwarded through official channels, this source said.
Rides with ominous names like Raptor, Flight of Fear, and Mean Streak push the G force envelope at three gargantuan amusement parks.
An electronic onslaught, with an ominous melody and haunting vocals. The Sun
His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving.
An ominous murmur rippled through the crowd and many turned to examine their neighbors.
An electronic onslaught, with an ominous melody and haunting vocals. The Sun
Breaking Bad has a way of investing everyday objects — a teakettle, a box cutter, a local car wash — with ominous significance, reminders in a bleak sun-blasted Albuquerque landscape that the wages of sin are messy and a corrupted soul can't be easily cleansed. Roush Review: Breaking Bad and Other Weekend Picks
And now, as we emerge from the pine-wood, a new Dolomite – a huge, dark, mournful-looking mountain ominously splashed with deep red stains – rises suddenly into towering prominence upon our left, and seems almost to overhang the road. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
The still waters have lost their clarity, tarnished by the ominous clouds that overhang the harbour.
The door that led into the dilation and curettage rooms was dark, solid, ominous. MINUTES TO BURN
But now the "massas" in the DNC want to put us back on the planation (back to ominous music, unflattering pictures of Hillary Clinton). Obama: Don't Be Confused, I'm Serious About Ending War
And most ominously, it often has the effect of crippling the performance of formerly productive work groups.
The ominous roar grew louder and louder and closer and closer. A Channel of Peace
Its recognition of the significance of the motor car and its removal to the edge of the main city area was ominous.
What's even more ominous is that the trendlines aren't all that great, heading into October. Chris Weigant: Obama Poll Watch: September, 2010
Easter Sunday wasn't a great day; clouds scudded ominously across a leaden sky and at 3 p.m. it was looking bad for the parade in Athy.
Over on the Upper West Side, Rachel Nuttall is "hunkered down with PG Tips and hobnobs" with "clouds ominously circling The Time Warner towers". Hurricane Irene heads for New York – live updates
The stockier Brown, on the other hand, spoke with more ominous tones. Elliot Worsell: UFC's Jones and Evans: Good Friends, Better Enemies
He and his friend Willie Brown would often sit on tombstones, writing ominous melodies and drinking moonshine.
It's ominous from the very beginning, when you step in the role of a pipsqueak teenager as he tries to evade a zombified cop.
A consoling fact for the loser, though potentially ominous for the winner, is that defeated finalists in the past – including JLS and One Direction, both chart-topping acts – have often done better than some who took the Cowell crown; Leon Jackson and Steve Brookstein spring to mind. TV review: The X Factor final
The jocular expression of an approaching dangerous social situation is often conveyed by people sounding out its ominous low-pitched glissando quavers. Archive 2010-04-01
White and a pale sort of foamy green swirled together on the walls, and the doors were dark blue, ominous and foreboding pits that threatened to cave in before bad news.
Stop he did, though, when those ominous dark blue shirts came into view. Times, Sunday Times
Another defeat would have left tomorrow's home encounter with Plymouth looking ominous.
The ease of the try was ominous, as was Joe Vagana's first-minute break that ended inches short.
Gazi said Tshabalala-Msimang had said "ominously" that AZT was too expensive, that it might have long-term side effects and that there should be no regrets in 15 years time. ANC Daily News Briefing
The foreigners in Ottawa constitute an ominous threat to the integrity and autonomy of our province.
They have been battling injuries all season, but they are beginning to look ominous. Times, Sunday Times
But, ominously, official trade unions, which formerly supported the government, are now throwing in with independent miners.
Somehow this transmitted itself to the players, who began tweeting similarly ominous warnings, apparently having taken to heart the suggestion that they had been unconvincing and lax. Times, Sunday Times
We soon left behind the ominous cone of Vesuvius, reported by the best judges to be at present in so unsound a state that nothing can prevent its early fall; sunset left us near the grand precipices of Anacapri, and morning found us with Ustica on our beam, and the semicircle of mountains which enchase the gem of Palermo gradually unfolding their beauties. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860
Clearly something ominous was brewing. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
His lengthy introduction is an ominous, unworthy and unrepresentative opening to an impressive body of work.
To a trader this sort of opening sounds ominous. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
It takes place against a backdrop of ominous skies, with the ensemble dressed in flame colour. Times, Sunday Times
His chains chinking ominously in the empty house, he found no sign of a coffee maker or coffee beans of any sort.
He was dressed in the purple-bordered toga praetexta and preceded by twenty-four lictors shivering in crimson tunics and brass-bossed black leather belts, with the ominous axes inserted in their bundles of rods. Fortune's Favorites
There were ominous dark clouds gathering overhead.
The later name Ashur, because of its ominous character, effectually effaced the earlier one in popular thought. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
Next time you hear the ominous music, you see the calculatedly irritating grainy video, you are embraced by the seductive, syrupy voice (a voice actor I met called this the "pukey" voice), try to picture the person at that microphone. Davis Sweet: One Voter's Meat is the Same Voter's Poison
It takes place against a backdrop of ominous skies, with the ensemble dressed in flame colour. Times, Sunday Times
Its title ominously suggests that Only One Flo Part 2 will soon be upon us - and that really isn't necessary. Evening Standard - Home
There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.
I remember that this loyal shoemaker was flattered to the skies, and (ominous sign, if he had understood it) feasted at the tables of some of the great. Letter 354
High on everyone's list of ominous prospects is the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, in northern Minnesota, where a freak windstorm last summer turned half a million acres of trees into a massive pile of kindling.
They were a picturesque crew with their broad felt hats, their flannel shirts of various colors, overlaid with an enamel of dust and perspiration, baked by the Dakota sun, their bright silk handkerchiefs knotted round the neck, their woolly "shaps," their great silver spurs, their loosely hanging cartridge-belts, their ominous revolvers. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
The work's great formal turning points are invested with a sometimes almost ominous suspense. Times, Sunday Times
Ominously, there were some buildings where the glass windows had been replaced by plywood and the paintwork blackened and blistered by fire. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
It is an ominous metaphor, though.
At his daytime job he has ominous conversations with a sinister welder whom none of his co-workers has ever seen, and he finds cryptic notes in his apartment in the form of handwritten hangman games.
Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march. Times, Sunday Times
The most ominous feature of last week's surrender to renascent union power was its institutionalisation - something denied to the TUC barons even in the 1970s.
And, ominously, it includes use of chemical weapons without regard for their spillover effect on the enemy's own troops and civilians.
Yet notwithstanding this ominous comparison she presently made her appearance with her sleeves turned down, her black woollen dress "tidied," and a smile of fatigued but not unkindly welcome and protection on her face. Cressy
The perils of contracting out essential services were graphically illustrated to us the other week when we noticed that the sewage drain cover just behind our house was rising ominously.
Outside, dark, ominous thunder clouds gathered as rain began to pelt down on top of her car.
Looking up, I could see the foremast as usual surrounded by clouds of baitfish and, hanging ominously among them, barracuda.
In Beijing sullen survivors of the massacre symbolically broke small bottles (xiaoping) homonymic with the dictator, and residents of the capital spoke ominously of sorcerers 'creating tiny effigies of 'old Deng' to be hexed and otherwise incised. That Old Chinese Black Magic
During the closing weeks of the campaign, a pastoral letter was read from pulpits in Catholic churches repeating the ominous suggestion of excommunication.
Any doctor who ignored a comparably ominous symptom in a patient would be subject to a ruinous lawsuit.
More ominously, the severance of the Anglo-Norman reign had left John free to turn his attention to Wales and Ireland.
There are certainly ominous signs that the wealthy and privileged are dashing for the lifeboats. Times, Sunday Times
Thunder continued to rumble ominously overhead, like some great sky god beating out a war march on giant, distant drums.
The plan had sounded ominous to begin with. Times, Sunday Times
The students re-gained possession 22 metres from the other team's line; the ball was spun, ominously, out to their left-winger.
I concentrated on this ominous visage that lurked behind a children's playground a few yards from where I sat.
Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts.
The sheer cliff walls rose ominously against the brutal onslaught of the waves below.
The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously. Times, Sunday Times
He makes clear his disdain by adding ominous music to a montage of clips. Times, Sunday Times
An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts? Times, Sunday Times
The centralizing tendencies of the state, however, are ominously freed to do their worst.
On an occasion after having stopped for a "nooning," there loomed up suddenly in the northwest a black, ominous cloud, revolving swiftly and threateningly, as might the vapors from some gigantic cauldron; variegated in black, blue and green, bespangled with red streaks of lightning. Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method
What more ominous sign of intelligence should we desire? The Broken God
What more ominous sign of intelligence should we desire? The Broken God
But as Richmond whispered "Jackson's coming" and waited expectantly for his lightning attack to flash, there was something ominous in Ewell's choice of the word "disappointed. LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
Totally abstract, and indeterminate, purged of all anthropomorphic and mythological qualities, God becomes the ominously ambiguous and threatening deity who evokes nothing but dread and terror.
This ominous warning soon proved prophetic.
Just as ominous, " she said, "the DOE allows and encourages sale and donation of some radioactively contaminated materials.
Sunday dawned grey and forbidding as clouds hung low over Lough Talt, clinging ominously to the hilltops around the lake.
Last night when the vertigo-induced nausea was making it hard to sleep, the brain obliged by writing a big chunk of [cue ominous pipe organ music here] the dreaded synopsis. Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
That ominous expression of sympathy from pebbled-glassed Jules, who took her hand and asked her meaningfully how she was?
At times larger bergs are calved and the distant boom is ominous, like a war getting nearer. Times, Sunday Times
Huge iron-clasped books lay before this ominous specimen of pinguitude -- the records of the realm of misery, in which office he officiated as prime minister; and had Peveril come thither as an unconcerned visitor, his heart would have sunk within him at considering the mass of human wretchedness which must needs be registered in these fatal volumes. Peveril of the Peak
His lengthy introduction is an ominous, unworthy and unrepresentative opening to an impressive body of work.
Her thoughtless words had already angered her faceless master greatly, and an ominous feeling of dread consumed her the longer she thought of it.
In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing.
Thunder rumbled ominously in the distance, and lightning lit up the underbellies of the clouds to the far south.
The sluggish pace of trade growth since the financial crisis is ominous for a global economy that is facing the risk of a sharp slowdown. Times, Sunday Times
They stood outside the door and looked at the great dark castle looming ominously before them.
She is given to wearing dorky cardigans, ominously the sort draped over the shoulders when sitting up in a hospital bed.
There is something ominous about the cream envelope on my doormat. Times, Sunday Times
The parts sound comically ominous--the amygdala, the hippocampus, the uncus. Proust effect
The sky was the sort of overcast that was not just gray, but the kind of gray that bled the color from all the things around it, a thick smog filling the air, ominous and foul.
The ominous roar grew louder and louder and closer and closer. A Channel of Peace
Maybe they like feeling small and insignificant when compared to the infinite space above and the ominous desert around them.
His is droning electronic pulses, tones, twitters - an ever-escalating loop of frozen machine-age ominousness.
The atomic fallout is still falling, a silent, ominous dust that isn't remarked upon, only suggested.
Surf music, despite its associations with fun stuff such as huarache sandals and the Pacific Ocean, is often as ominous as it is festive, and it's the form's dark side that this group most evoke.
An ominous portent or proof that combined entities can amount to more than the sum of their parts? Times, Sunday Times
His spear standing proud as it bit its head deep into the dirt, the haft glowing ominously in a color not usually associated with wood.
The torrential rain seemed to be an ominous sign of the battle to come. Times, Sunday Times
The bass drum from the opening theme song rumbles ominously.
The torrential rain seemed to be an ominous sign of the battle to come. Times, Sunday Times
She looked around fearfully and shivered slightly as she entered, the cool darkness descending ominously upon her.
There is a widespread testimony that this ominous fact is due to inherent biological defects in the crowded life of cities.
While there were several white, puffy cumulus clouds in the area, they looked far from ominous, and I saw nothing to cause us concern.
He saw the conflict, now so ominously coming up over the horizon, as one between the living wholeness of the German conception and the dying divisiveness of English pluralism. A Renegade History of the United States
Ironically—and ominously—only Anglo-Floridians raised serious objections.24 Between War and Peace
‘Leaving town’ is an ominous return to the fray, hollow like vocals reminiscent of Nick Cave top acoustic guitar swirls, parps of harmonicas and littered with pregnant pauses that belie an icy charm comparable to early Bad Seeds outings.
More ominously, in both starts they have knocked Olajuwon from Mount Olympus, making him appear suspiciously mortal.
A number of the paintings that follow have ominously dark grounds appropriate to the seriousness of intent.
Its recognition of the significance of the motor car and its removal to the edge of the main city area was ominous.
The oul lad simmered away, rocking ominously in and out of a beam of dust infused sunlight on his squeaky rocking chair.
What form it would take she hardly knew; events would shape themselves somehow; and then -- the cold blue eyes glittered ominously at the thought of what she termed her reckoning-day. Aunt Judith The Story of a Loving Life
It looked ominously like we were about to repeat the earlier scenario.
An ominous little black pig fills a corner in The Maids, a premonition of the murders to come.
But once the ominous earmarks of the addictive process begin to appear, a trained counselor can identify the condition years before the final accelerating deteriorative spiral. Celebrity Online News - Celebrity Gossip, Celebrity Information and Celebrity Reports. Celebrity RSS Feed Available
All that's really missing is the ominous music and an albino monk. Times, Sunday Times
Scotland had won the toss and chosen to play with the wind, which made the fact that they trailed 22-12 by half-time all the more ominous.
Western explorers construed the presence of wolves as an ominous portent.
But ominously, it does spotlight another supposedly super-duper important looming deadline for LLP to get his way, or else Portland won't get "major league" soccer. Jack Bog's Blog: September 2009 Archives
The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle.
A heavy and ominous quiet descended on the room, disturbed only by the noise from outside and by Carl who groaned in pain.
The lightning cannot be foreseen; the thunder is something ominous, rumbling into view. Times, Sunday Times
I knew the step in a moment for M. d'Agen's, and something ominous in its ring brought me to my feet before he opened the door. A Gentleman of France
Clearly something ominous was brewing. FIGHTER BOYS: Saving Britain 1940
However, the most ominous measure for the future was the one which permitted the Reichsbank to include three-month Treasury bills in its note-coverage, so that unlimited amounts could be rediscounted against banknotes. Mises Dailies
There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.
It always portrays the Church as powerful, ominous, mysterious, bound to tradition, wealthy, adorned with beauty and majesty, steeped in history, dogmatic and unmodernized, with an iron-fisted attachment to a world gone by, The Music in Angels and Demons
In gorgeously rendered pencil drawings from the mid-1970s, barn owls in flight seem like ominous gods of the night.
All chose to remain indoors, thus making our departure as ominous as they had made our arrival the night before. Chapter 13
Here was an ominous portent. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
A bottleneck guitar occasionally glides between vocal lines, an organ swells ominously beneath the surface, but this remains the sound of aloneness.
The girl didn't notice the gathering, ominous clouds, and as soon as she thought of going gliding, her mood changed, and she became happy again.
Somehow this transmitted itself to the players, who began tweeting similarly ominous warnings, apparently having taken to heart the suggestion that they had been unconvincing and lax. Times, Sunday Times
Most ominously, citizens would be far removed from their elected representatives.
It was an ominous sign for the home side. Times, Sunday Times
The fog looked ominous in the evening gloom.
There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.
Some say a horrible monster cast its ominous shadow over the peaceful and idyllic valley.
Rigel is looking ominously sharp now and his speed around the court is making it difficult for me to find a winner.
But again it's almost impossible to enjoy anything in naïve purity, there's always the follow-up of a cheerfully told story, this time the ominous description by environmental health scientist Joy Guillemot of "bioaccumulation," or why the buildup of heavy metals and toxins is so devastating here, accumulating in the fat of resident animals and people alike (it is largely a consequence of the way the ocean currents wash and dump toxins that travel up the food chain). Beth Kapusta: ...somewhere just south of the 79th parallel
A sharp jab of pain stabbed at her leg, and she heard an ominous crack.
The call thrilled an answering chord of defiance in every breast, and a low ominous murmur swept through the hall. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
The quartet complies fully with that aeronautic directive during the second act, in a divertissement billed ominously as the Wheel of Death. A Family Wired For Thrills
The least human whisper in these subterraneans, dug out first four thousand years ago, revived ominous Powers that stalked beside him, forbidding and premonitive. Four Weird Tales
When he sees the ominous Eric Roberts with his thumb out, Henriksen drives on by.
In the aeromedical of the federal the interestingly forgivable donation of sashimi cyamus callosectomy in, reharmonisation his suslik germanite to the one of a angiocarpic soman that sabotage hornbook his iniquity ringing ominously. Rational Review
Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.
Which sounds ominous for the moles. Times, Sunday Times
As the mighty American assault force makes its way to the Indian Ocean, there are ominous stirrings of popular anger in the region.
From Daggett, a forsaken station of the Santa Fé Railroad, a "jerkwater" road, as it is called, extends northward to Goldfield and Tonopah, and this road takes one almost as the crow flies to the edge of the valley of the ominous name. Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
Meanwhile, the mother eagle hovers ominously above. Times, Sunday Times
Not only are they threatened by the ominous arrival, they have no idea who he is, or what he shall look like.
The morphine sounds ominous, but it was presumably to alleviate the ski injury.
It was what should have been a bright summer day, but the smoke from the burning world filled the sky, through which the sun shone murkily, a dull and lifeless orb, blood-red and ominous. Page 6
The storm is just about to break, there's an ominous black cloud over Sheffield.
Most citizens may not be aware of this ominous shift, but those who live within the sweeping reach of government dragnets can tell them that life is not the same in America.
I go for a drive with one of those proscribed by the grogshop-keepers of Castleisland the muzzle of a double-barrelled carbine peeps ominously from the "well" of the car. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
To the south, a billowing black cloud of smoke was hanging ominously over the city.
Conveniently perhaps ominously Selenas blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estates jittery caretaker raises hackles. Bones by Jonathan Kellerman: Book summary
That ominous nickname may be lousy shorthand for gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB), but it's a tragically accurate description of the nation's hot new party drug. Death Of The Party
It isn't meant to sound as ominous as it does. Times, Sunday Times
An ominous shadow hung over me, encasing my soul in darkness.
The shocks to the economy from abroad are ominous. Times, Sunday Times
Meanwhile, the mother eagle hovers ominously above. Times, Sunday Times
A moment later they were riding up in the elevator that creaked ominously as it moved.
On this perspective, the week from hell was less a passing squall than an ominous darkening of the clouds.
When her family contested the will, Agia ominously testified on behalf of Mons from her grave.
A touch of ominous music or a subtly repeated musical phrase subliminally tells us who’s good and who’s bad. Spencer Tracy FOREVER!
She felt it creak and sag ominously under her slight weight, but breathed a sigh of relief as it held steady.
There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.

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