Sample Sentences for
foreboding
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    "You are always foreboding gloomy things!" said the others.  (source)
    foreboding = with a feeling that something bad is going to happen
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    It came about that on a certain day Rostam rose from his couch and his mind was filled with forebodings.  (source)
    forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
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    And he dreaded that mind: it revolted him: he shrank forebodingly from the idea of committing Isabella to its keeping.  (source)
    forebodingly = with a sense that something bad will happen
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    It was a try toward relieving the foreboding in his manner; it only worked to deepen it.†  (source)
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    I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.  (source)
    forebodings = feelings that bad things are going to happen
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    And while it passes, Louis, we are aware of downfalling, we forebode decay.†  (source)
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    Her heart was overflowing with tenderness, but it still foreboded evil.†  (source)
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    BEOWULF FOREBODES ILL FROM THE WEDDING OF FREAWARU: HE TELLS OF GRENDEL AND HIS DAM.†  (source)
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    Forebodingly I caught a smell-metallic, the iron smell of blood, as when a woman gives birth, as at the sacrifice of a large animal, as when I menstruated and dreamed red dreams.†  (source)
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    Then why did Judith's teasing always raise this cold little lump of foreboding?†  (source)
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    Our forebodings increase as rum is served out.†  (source)
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    It will be far otherwise than as you forebode.†  (source)
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    He returned pampered and proud, to tell his rapacious countrymen of the wealth and the simplicity of the Saxon nobles—a folly, oh, Athelstane, foreboded of old, as well as foreseen, by those descendants of Hengist and his hardy tribes, who retained the simplicity of their manners.†  (source)
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