Sample Sentences for
portent
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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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    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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    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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    A stillness that is a portent, a gathering, a coming together of something akin to a storm.†  (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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    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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    An intensely spiritual young man, Ang Dorje was not one to take such portents lightly.†  (source)
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    But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?†  (source)
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    He spoke of weather portents and the slack wits of smallfolk, and told how his nephew itched for battle.†  (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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    An increasing redness that was like a portent Was glowing above it.†  (source)
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