auspicious

in a sentence

The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

[regarding his laughing so much as a child] It seems like a rather "auspicious" beginning.  (source) Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, 1999

I chose an auspicious day, the third day of the third month.  (source) Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club, 1989

"Well," she said after looking at it for a while, "it reads, 'An auspicious day for small changes.'"  (source) Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, 1997

This first venture outside her new home was not starting out auspiciously for Kit, but as they set out along the road she could not repress her curiosity and bouncing spirits.†  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

you uncivil lady, To whose ingrate and unauspicious altars My soul the faithfull'st offerings hath breathed out That e'er devotion tender'd!†  (source) William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, 1601

Quite simply, the cornerstone was set at that date and time because, among other things, the auspicious Caput Draconis was in Virgo.  (source) Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol, 2009

The day began auspiciously.†  (source) Jack London, White Fang, 1906

Hard elements of unauspicious war, Vain vows to Heav'n, and unavailing care!†  (source) Virgil, The Aeneid, -19 B.C.

sunrise is the most auspicious moment for magic.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid, 2010

But the day did not close so auspiciously as it began.†  (source) Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, 1811

Let him give leave of speech, that haughty man, Whose pride this unauspicious war began; For whose ambition (let me dare to say, Fear set apart, tho' death is in my way) The plains of Latium run with blood around.†  (source) Virgil, The Aeneid, -19 B.C.

The wedding will be in Calcutta, a little over a year from now, on an auspicious January day, just as she and her husband were married nearly thirty-four years ago.  (source) Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake, 2003