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How To Use ominously 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
• 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.
• 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
• Clouds loomed ominously over the beach on Saturday, but the rain stayed away.
• 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
• 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.
• Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.