Sample Sentences for
premonition
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  • The Final Destination movies all begin when someone has a premonition that a group of friends will die in a terrible accident.
  • But this church gave me a kind of creepy feeling. What do you call it? Premonition?  (source)
    Premonition = a feeling, not based on reason, that something will happen -- especially something bad
  • A few months after they left, she'd had a premonition that something was wrong with Mama.  (source)
    premonition = feeling (that something will happen)
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  • As soon as I got to camp, I had a premonition about Hera's cabin.  (source)
    premonition = a feeling, not based on reason, that something will happen
  • The bullets were premonitions, ghosts from dreams of a hard, fast future.†  (source)
  • A sort of premonitory tremor, a fear of he was not certain what, had passed through Winston as soon as he caught his first glimpse of the cage.†  (source)
  • But I knew, as a chill of premonition tingled from my tailbone up to my neck, that it was not us he saw.  (source)
  • But those premonitions proved correct, in a way I hadn't been at all prepared for, on the first day back in public school, when the shape of what I truly had to deal with appeared to me for the first time.†  (source)
  • I was undressing in my own room, when, with a premonitory tap at the door, he entered, and at once began to speak.†  (source)
  • I wanted to ... and try to forget (at least for one night) that I had a terrible premonition about Chris's disappearance and...  (source)
    premonition = a feeling, not based on reason about what happened or will happen
  • She was Irish enough to believe in second sight, especially where death premonitions were concerned, and in his wide gray eyes she saw some deep sadness which she could only interpret as that of a man who has felt the cold finger on his shoulder, has heard the wail of the Banshee.†  (source)
  • At all hours of the day and night, I would be taken with the premonitory shudder; above all, if I slept, or even dozed for a moment in my chair, it was always as Hyde that I awakened.†  (source)
  • Some premonition of that great power stirred and swayed these young creatures who traversed the solemn woodlands with soft-footed silent care.  (source)
    premonition = a feeling, not based on reason, that something is so or will happen
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