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  • The soil is becoming hilly and portends mountains not far off.†  (source)
  • Portends no other thing than death.†  (source)
  • It is pitch-black; clouds block out the moon and stars completely. Does the dark portend their future?  (source)
    portend = indicate what will happen in
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  • When Mr. Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding.  (source)
    portend = indicate by a sign that something is going to happen
  • I've always loved full moons. ... I liked to think that they were an omen of sorts. I wanted to believe they always portended good things.  (source)
    portended = indicated by signs that something is going to happen
  • Above them, swollen thunderheads gathered along the horizon, portending a torrential storm, and circling hawks uttered lonesome cries as they hunted their prey.†  (source)
  • If a well-run meal or snack portends good things for community and understanding, then the failed meal stands as a bad sign.†  (source)
  • My first role, however, did not exactly portend greatness on stage.†  (source)
  • Few heeded the sign, and not even Bilbo yet had any notion of what it portended.  (source)
    portended = indicated the future by signs -- especially something bad
  • Yet another truth portending the inevitable.  (source)
    portending = indicate by signs that something is going to happen
  • What do you think it portends?†  (source)
  • What does your flickering portend?†  (source)
  • The B-29, and what it portended, fed the Bird's vitriol.†  (source)
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