How To Use Portentously In A Sentence
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portentously, the engines began to roll
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First they declare portentously that the European club is in deep "crisis" and unable to function.
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She frowned portentously to add weight to her suggestion.
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The camera tracked around them portentously as they sat at glowing laptops in a dimly-lit smoky room and, bit by bit, revealed the purported secret of Christie's success.
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Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously.
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A sulphury light filled the flat, and the first heavy raindrops splashed portentously on the sill beyond the sitting-room window.
DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
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Either plump to excess or excessively lean; either parlously young or portentously old; — the medium is mawkish. —
Peer Gynt
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The images, mostly breathtaking-horrifying aerial shots of an alternately lunar and conflagrant post-Gulf War Kuwaiti landscape, are at least strictly documentary; the formal framework, however-including various pieces of classical music; XIII portentously titled chapters; and a Herzog voiceover filled with vague destruction-myth proclamations ( "And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell") - suggests post-apocalyptic fiction.
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