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
  • There had been no signs or portents, no secret signals.  (source)
    portents = indicators or signs of what was going to happen
  • 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
  • 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)
  • Three dead trees on the moor below, burned up alive by lightning, are ominous portents.  (source)
    portents = signs of something about to happen
  • But did your reverence hear of the portent that was seen last night?†  (source)
  • An intensely spiritual young man, Ang Dorje was not one to take such portents lightly.†  (source)
  • Lenny studies them a while, letting the moment draw meaning and portent.†  (source)
  • San Piedro fishermen, in 1954, were apt to pay attention to signs and portents other men had no inkling of.†  (source)
  • A stillness that is a portent, a gathering, a coming together of something akin to a storm.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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