Sample sentences for PRESENTIMENT

(click/touch triangles for details)

Definition

a premonition (a supernatural feeling about what is to come) — especially of something evil or bad

the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case

I believe in every foolish presentiment that comes into my head.
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor -- The Idiot
I have a presentiment that it must be a girl.
Dickens, Charles -- David Copperfield
I still held it with the presentiment that a need for it would come.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- Beyond the City
He seemed to be working in obedience to some particular presentiment.
Melville, Herman -- Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV
But my soul is always my own; every minute of the day and the night it is filled with unspeakable presentiments.
Anton Chekhov -- The Cherry Orchard

presentiments = premonitions (supernatural feelings about what is to come)

I was afraid again, but I had lived with fear a long time now and some vague presentiment that it would always be present.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
"That's a bad presentiment, mother."
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
I have a presentiment that if no other innocent atonement is made for this, it will one day be required of him.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
Thy words inspire a dread presentiment.
Sophocles -- Antigone
He noticed that she was tremulous, and he had a presentiment of the subject she was going to speak about.
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
The fact is, I felt irresistibly impressed with a presentiment of some vast good fortune impending.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Gold-Bug
Hepzibah's presentiment had not deceived her.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
Finding my seat at last, I was overcome with a presentiment of worse things to come.
Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Presentiment that long shadow passes over, and we are the startled grass.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
And when he turned again to face her she knew immediately that her presentiment was an accurate one, and that her cause was in its deepest peril yet.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
I had a presentiment that it would be needed.
Lucy Maud Montgomery -- Anne Of Green Gables
OEDIPUS 'tis a dread presentiment That in the end the seer will prove not blind.
Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
Presentiments of strange discoveries hovered round me.
Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street

Dictionary / pronunciation — Google^®Dictionary list — Onelook.com^®

Search for other examples by interest

Interest — Source