portent

How To Use portent In A Sentence

• Elongated roars and fragments of voices gave a sense of atmospheric portent, while syncopated pings, clicks and chirps added a desultory counterpoint.
• It's a cultural curiosity now, but perhaps a portent of the future. Christianity Today
• We're not there yet but the signs and portents are mounting up.
• I see it as a portent of things to come.
• It was a portent of climatic things to come, which culminated in the worst floods in living memory in cities such as Prague and Dresden.
• And the tremendous skull of the great hog of Oakham hung, a portentous ivory overmantel, with a Chinese jar in either eye socket, snout down above the fire .... The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
• As the warriors passed along the mountain trails, they watched for portents of future victory or defeat. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
• Society-wide measures of religious behavior muffle portentous change that may be occurring at the younger edge of the population, so social prognosticators just like commercial advertisers focus on trends among young adults, trying to discern which aspects of behavior are what they are because the youths are young, and which aspects are what they are because of when they are young. American Grace
• As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
• As the portentous millennium approached, evangelical thoughts turned to the long-awaited Second Coming of Christ and thence to Armageddon.