Sample Sentences for
ominous
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    The smokestack and the ominous black curl emerging from it, dissipating against the bright blue sky,  (source)
    ominous = threatening; or suggestive of bad things to come
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    There was a murmur among the group of men, made more ominous when Atticus moved back to the bottom front step and the men drew nearer to him.  (source)
    ominous = threatening
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    There is something ominous behind the silence.  (source)
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    and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky,  (source)
    ominous = suggestive of bad things to come
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    "Explain," she said, her glasses glinting ominously.  (source)
    ominously = in a threatening way
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    First a terrible ominousness would fill the air.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The idea of a white Christmas usually excited me, but now it felt ominous.  (source)
    ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
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    Ominously he pointed the blade of the shovel at the boy in the owl burrow.  (source)
    Ominously = in a threatening manner
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    His mother's taciturnity was not without ominousness, but he appeared not to care.†  (source)
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    When I got my diagnosis it didn't sound serious, but after a while it sounded more ominous than other people's.  (source)
    ominous = threatening or suggestive of bad things to come
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    He said ominously, "Well, he better watch out for Lennie. Lennie ain't no fighter, but Lennie's strong and quick and Lennie don't know no rules."  (source)
    ominously = in a manner that suggests danger
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    He remembered the clammy ominousness he felt; his apprehension seemed to be a part of the unseasonable and oppressive heat, close as a boiler room, which even in the approaching twilight remained stagnant on the breezeless air, drenching him in sweat.†  (source)
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    ...they looked seldom at it, for it was ominous and dreary even in the light of morning.  (source)
    ominous = suggestive of evil or something bad
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