How To Use Ominously In A Sentence
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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
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Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march.
Times, Sunday Times
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He couldn't stop looking the man's shiny gold tooth that glinted ominously in the streetlight.
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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
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Clouds loomed ominously over the beach on Saturday, but the rain stayed away.
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He spoke ominously of the world facing "a war in Europe and possibly something greater".
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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
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The second is that an expectant and sceptical mob is starting to gather, with what looks ominously like a gallows and a hanging rope.
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Ominously, the party had also announced its intention to liberalize the sector.
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Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.
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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
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And most ominously, it often has the effect of crippling the performance of formerly productive work groups.
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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.
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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
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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
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But, ominously, official trade unions, which formerly supported the government, are now throwing in with independent miners.
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His chains chinking ominously in the empty house, he found no sign of a coffee maker or coffee beans of any sort.
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Its title ominously suggests that Only One Flo Part 2 will soon be upon us - and that really isn't necessary.
Evening Standard - Home
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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
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Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, ominously, it includes use of chemical weapons without regard for their spillover effect on the enemy's own troops and civilians.
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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.
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Looking up, I could see the foremast as usual surrounded by clouds of baitfish and, hanging ominously among them, barracuda.
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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
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More ominously, the severance of the Anglo-Norman reign had left John free to turn his attention to Wales and Ireland.
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Thunder continued to rumble ominously overhead, like some great sky god beating out a war march on giant, distant drums.
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The students re-gained possession 22 metres from the other team's line; the ball was spun, ominously, out to their left-winger.
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The sheer cliff walls rose ominously against the brutal onslaught of the waves below.
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The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously.
Times, Sunday Times
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The centralizing tendencies of the state, however, are ominously freed to do their worst.
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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.
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Sunday dawned grey and forbidding as clouds hung low over Lough Talt, clinging ominously to the hilltops around the lake.
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In one funeral scene, not only does the coffin break open to reveal the corpse, but also a black crow begins ominously cawing.
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Thunder rumbled ominously in the distance, and lightning lit up the underbellies of the clouds to the far south.
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They stood outside the door and looked at the great dark castle looming ominously before them.
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She is given to wearing dorky cardigans, ominously the sort draped over the shoulders when sitting up in a hospital bed.
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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.
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The bass drum from the opening theme song rumbles ominously.
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She looked around fearfully and shivered slightly as she entered, the cool darkness descending ominously upon her.
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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
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Ironically—and ominously—only Anglo-Floridians raised serious objections.24
Between War and Peace
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More ominously, in both starts they have knocked Olajuwon from Mount Olympus, making him appear suspiciously mortal.
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A number of the paintings that follow have ominously dark grounds appropriate to the seriousness of intent.
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The oul lad simmered away, rocking ominously in and out of a beam of dust infused sunlight on his squeaky rocking chair.
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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
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It looked ominously like we were about to repeat the earlier scenario.
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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
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A bottleneck guitar occasionally glides between vocal lines, an organ swells ominously beneath the surface, but this remains the sound of aloneness.
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Most ominously, citizens would be far removed from their elected representatives.
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Rigel is looking ominously sharp now and his speed around the court is making it difficult for me to find a winner.
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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
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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
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Some were caked with layer upon layer of old food, others burbled ominously with fresh unsavory indelicacies.
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Meanwhile, the mother eagle hovers ominously above.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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To the south, a billowing black cloud of smoke was hanging ominously over the city.
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Conveniently perhaps ominously Selenas blueblood employers are nowhere to be found, and their estates jittery caretaker raises hackles.
Bones by Jonathan Kellerman: Book summary
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Meanwhile, the mother eagle hovers ominously above.
Times, Sunday Times
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A moment later they were riding up in the elevator that creaked ominously as it moved.
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When her family contested the will, Agia ominously testified on behalf of Mons from her grave.
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She felt it creak and sag ominously under her slight weight, but breathed a sigh of relief as it held steady.
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For Fitz, with the lung tumor wrapped ominously around her bronchus, the biggest hurdle had been the local control of her cancer.
The Emperor of All Maladies
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That ‘something’ may have been flagged up by the controversy and, no matter who was in the wrong there, I think it pointed ominously to a new battleground behind the scenes.
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It does look ominously like some kind of shuriken: "Shuriken 手裏剣; lit: "hand hidden blade" is a traditional Japanese concealed weapon that was used for throwing, and sometimes stabbing or slashing an opponents arteries.
Nick Carr, I love you
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With the clock ticking ominously, they searched his computer and notebooks.
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At the sight of him glaring at her ominously, she gasped ` O Madonna!
MURKY SHALLOWS
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He writes a letter of accusation, ominously hinting at his own impending death.
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By nightfall the tall dark handsome pines loomed ominously overhead.
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Maya leaves the room causally as if to visit the ladies 'and the cameras keep zooming in ominously on her naked mannequin.
Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 11 Recap: Alba-tross
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The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously.
Times, Sunday Times
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I shrink with bone-chilling horror at the deathly shroud of moribund prose that dangles limply from the author's limblike arms, as he threatens ominously to envelopingly enwrap me in it ... or it in me.
Archive 2006-08-01
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The vexed question of supplying arms has also featured ominously.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Barratt successfully shows that under the mayor's wheedling sycophancy lurks a monster who dispatches his enemies to a torture chamber with an ominously naked bulb.
Government Inspector – review
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Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the sight of him glaring at her ominously, she gasped ` O Madonna!
MURKY SHALLOWS
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‘Oh, hello sweetie,’ my mother greets me, her 6ft blonde beehive swaying ominously, and her bubblegum pink sweater cut too low to be legal.
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The sky grows dark in every quarter, most ominously.
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I should try to develop a Green's function variational method for three-body scattering problems, like low-energy neutron-deuteron scattering, while warning me ominously, that he himself had tried and failed.
Walter Kohn - Autobiography
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She lay motionless, utterly worn out by her exertions, yet at the same time ominously wide awake.
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Storm clouds are turning ominously dark as global markets become more unsettled by the week.
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As we walked down the steep path into the nullah a brace of red-legged partridges (chikor) rose in a great fuss, and sailed gaily across the river, whose roaring gained ominously in volume as we drew near.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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They saw what had happened, however, and beheld the barbarian set his foot on their companion, and brandish high his formidable weapon, the whistling sound of which made the old arch ring ominously, while he paused an instant, with his weapon upheaved, ere he gave the finishing blow to his enemy.
Count Robert of Paris
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He whirled around to find an impossibly tall, cloaked figure leering ominously at them.
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The only sound, other than the eerie whistle of the wind, is the moan of prayer horns, blown by maroon-robed monks, which echo ominously across the valley.
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Another rocket is fired, and the smoke hangs ominously over the square.
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Ominously, however, this confidence-promoting institution is itself undergoing a crisis of confidence.
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Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money.
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Thunder rumbled ominously, and the wind and rain battered the windows.
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At 10 percent of U.S. GDP (and rising" ominously "), our federal deficit" looks more like the Greek deficit than the California deficit, "he wrote.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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But ominously, there was no hint of an eventual return to the Cabinet.
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More ominously, the new law allowed the president to alone decide when to acquire and exercise that power.
A Renegade History of the United States
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And trust mustn't even be used in the same sentence with Lotso, an ominously unctuous old teddy bear who's the eminence grise plus fraise; he smells of strawberries of the daycare center's playthings.
An Ode to 'Toy'
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There was a large serpent coiled about in an offensive manner and hissing ominously.
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In any case, he added ominously, Moscow expected exit requests to decline in the future.
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It was this scheme that Vice President Dick Cheney and then National Security Director Condi Rice were mendaciously citing when they referred ominously to a mushroom cloud threat in the fall of 2002, and that Bush lyingly referred to in his 2003 State of the Union message, when he said: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.
Commemorating 9-11 by Impeaching the President
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Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the sight of him glaring at her ominously, she gasped ` O Madonna!
MURKY SHALLOWS
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In light of a Washington Post report which “ominously tells us that the World Health Organization warns that we are on the verge of a global pandemic”, Guyanese blogger Imran Khan is heartened by the call of a local journalist for “his colleagues in the media to pay greater attention to the swine flu situation”, but still wonders about the government's pro-activeness:
Global Voices in English » Caribbean: Keeping Track of Swine Flu
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The air was dense with meandering mists that loomed ominously over the surface of the ocean.
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The second half began ominously for Ballina as they continued to waste chances and allow Ballyvarry to launch a counter-attack.
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At the sight of him glaring at her ominously, she gasped ` O Madonna!
MURKY SHALLOWS
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The skies darkened ominously and the light sensitive floodlights in the Hollow switched on to combat the 1.00 p.m. early darkness.
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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
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Tiny water droplets splattered across his reflection in the mirror at which he stared at ominously.
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Ominously, more and more businesses are going to the wall.
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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
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On 21 April hundreds of officers mustered ominously outside Gaza Central Prison in defense of their old commanders rather than the new ones.
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Another rocket is fired, and the smoke hangs ominously over the square.
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More ominously, a major economic crisis is clearly brewing in Latin America.
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Now our attention has been drawn to a magazine item, ominously headed ‘Coppergate row continues’.
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The words pour forth like lava, steadily and ominously, packed with gritty images and metaphors.
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In one video on the BMSD website, an archetypal "angry young Muslim" begins ominously, "I have a message for those who insult Islam," before adding: "Let's agree to disagree.
Muslim women: beyond the stereotype
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I'd never thought of myself as a plainsman, but those trees closed in on me, creeping ominously up from the side of the road and obscuring my view of the horizon.
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The trinity of terror and their still plentiful outlaw army rode between the cascading waters and into the bat filled womb of darkness leading to a network of ominously foreboding caves.
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The action begins with a group of dissolute rich folks chatting in some tropical hideaway while oppressed throngs gather ominously at the gates.
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She briefly imagined his pose: arms akimbo, hips jutting outward in impatience, thick black brows lowered ominously over angry eyes, mouth set in disapproval.
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And here was I, luxuriating in the charms of Nevis, one of the loveliest islands in the Caribbean, responsibility looming ominously overhead.
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And again, "Time Magazine" uncovering a claim of responsibility from al Qaeda in Iraq with a message saying that basically it's aimed at those who are cooperating with what they call the occupier and its agents, saying ominously, quote, "We will reach you wherever you are.
CNN Transcript Apr 12, 2007
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The gaudy maps they passed around at the Spanish court—vast waters with pictures of sea serpents smiling ominously in the waves, weird configurations of terra incognita promising cities strewn with gems, countries populated by Amazons or anthropophagi or talking animals—translated into nothing more than pretty beaches and bad-tempered inhabitants with very sharp arrows.
Dream State
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Yesterday a 1960s Olympia 463 sailplane landed as light as that proverbial feather in Grasmere, albeit skimming a drystone wall at 50mph to slide along the grass after 100 yards and just before another wall loomed ominously ahead.
Country diary: Grasmere, Lake District
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At night, it falls ominously dark.
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Most noticeable were the metallic spheres, the red strip of indented metal in the center shining ominously when the light hit.
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The dark clouds were gathering ominously over Huntington Stadium last night - and it wasn't just down to the unseasonal weather.
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The abscess was ominously darker and pussier today.
My Child's Tooth is Turning Dark!
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‘Oh, hello sweetie,’ my mother greets me, her 6ft blonde beehive swaying ominously, and her bubblegum pink sweater cut too low to be legal.
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Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s.
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The roar of inrushing water drowned out all sound for almost thirty seconds until—ominously—the whole shaft suddenly fell silent.
Hell Island
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Her boisterous laugh was quite melodized, and her step did not make the crystal drops of the girandoles tinkle as ominously as they formerly did.
Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author
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This is another subject about which the official documents are ominously silent.
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Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money.
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The second half began ominously for Ballina as they continued to waste chances and allow Ballyvarry to launch a counter-attack.
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We were ominously informed that medical personnel would always be on call backstage.
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Over the next two days, I have managed to head south-west at last, but ominously, my water maker has become very flaky and after stripping and cleaning it for four hours, I can generate no more than a dribble.
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Ominously, the calving of monstrous Antarctic icebergs is becoming a regular occurrence.
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‘Now we are going to a special place,’ said one man, and the rest chortled ominously.
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Check out this Russian model of arithmometer, ominously named "Felix" (after Felix Dzerzhiski, founder of Soviet KGB) It was based on 1914 St. Petersburg's Odner-Hill company device, shown on the bottom, click on image for more -
Dark Roasted Blend
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Another rocket is fired, and the smoke hangs ominously over the square.
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The band members shouted catcalls at him and the audience boomed ominously in sudden frustration.
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Submerged in the azure waters of the ominously named Shipwreck Bay, the rusting hulk of the oil tanker Jessica is a somber reminder of man's threat to the fragile paradise of the Galapagos Islands.
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the sun darkened ominously
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He glanced around, the great dome of the black sky looming ominously over him.
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No more bombs fell from the windows, the last pedestrians seemed to have vanished from the streets, and our immediate quietude grew more profound; though the gigantic caldron continued to bubble in the distance, dull roars of explosions came to us from all directions, and the smoke-pillars were towering more ominously in the heavens.
Chapter 22: The Chicago Commune
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Portsmouth's chimes sound ominously like a funeral march.
Times, Sunday Times
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He nods ominously towards the granite crenellations.
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For example, things begin ominously in Matt Brighton's DVD Authority review of To Catch a Thief.
GreenCine Daily: DVDs, 5/11.
