Sample Sentences forportent (editor-reviewed)
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She believes ominous dreams are often portents of significant events about to unfold in life.portents = signs
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The Golden Globe Awards are portents of the upcoming Academy Awards.portents = signs of what will happen
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The sudden appearance of dark clouds served as a portent of the impending storm.portent = a sign of something about to happen
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Would anyone like me to help them interpret the shadowy portents within their Orb? (source)portents = signs of things about to happen
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There had been no signs or portents, no secret signals. (source)portents = indicators or signs of what was going to happen
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The drive to El Puerto was always a pleasant one, but today it was filled with strange portents. (source)portents = signs of things about to happen
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Giants and other portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more important matters: (source)portents = signs of things about to happen
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She told him she couldn't live without him and saw no portent when he told her this was true for him but not for her.† (source)
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Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents. (source)portents = signs of something about to happen
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But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?† (source)
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An intensely spiritual young man, Ang Dorje was not one to take such portents lightly.† (source)
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Lenny studies them a while, letting the moment draw meaning and portent.† (source)
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San Piedro fishermen, in 1954, were apt to pay attention to signs and portents other men had no inkling of.† (source)
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A stillness that is a portent, a gathering, a coming together of something akin to a storm.† (source)
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Still, now and then, I received a damping check to my cheerfulness; and was, in spite of myself, thrown back on the region of doubts and portents, and dark conjectures.† (source)
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Doc Daneeka had lost his head during Milo's bombardment; instead of running for cover, he had remained out in the open and performed his duty, slithering along the ground through shrapnel, strafing and incendiary bombs like a furtive, wily lizard from casualty to casualty, administering tourniquets, morphine, splints and sulfanilamide with a dark and doleful visage, never saying one word more than he had to and reading in each man's bluing wound a dreadful portent of his own decay.† (source)
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