presentiment

How To Use presentiment In A Sentence

• It is such a powerful presentiment of my own death that I begin to cry.
• Ever since we had come to live in the city, I had felt a presentiment of danger. THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
• Novelists know how to put vague presentiments into words.
• He doesn't notice his peers' fearful presentiments, or the sharp clatter of something falling onto the floor, shattering the silence.
• He had a presentiment of disaster.
• We never find instinct making mistakes; we cannot, therefore, ascribe a result which is so invariably precise to such an obscure condition of mind as is implied when the word presentiment is used; on the contrary, this absolute certainty is so characteristic a feature of instinctive actions, that it constitutes almost the only well-marked point of distinction between these and actions that are done upon reflection. Unconscious Memory
• I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because I have had strange ones of my own.
• The lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case against her client.
• But, although he thought of it as invalid, at the same time he felt it to be the expression of a true presentiment.
• A presentiment of unease enveloped me before I could find my seat at the rear of the plane.