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a sign of something about to happen

He looked for an omen before going into battle.

omen = a sign of what would happen

Right there and then I should have known the dream was an omen of death.
Paul Zindel -- The Pigman

omen = sign of something about to happen

that butterflies were a good omen.
Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist

omen = sign of something about to happen

You'll start seeing death omens everywhere.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

omens = signs of what will happen in the future

A bad omen for a homecoming.
Rick Riordan -- The Red Pyramid
She didn't know if that was an omen of sorts or even if she should attach any meaning to it.
Nicholas Sparks -- Message in a Bottle
Be it so if you will; but, alas! it was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown
It seemed like a good omen.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
The sun was out now, and Hammond took it as an omen.
Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
Can you imagine a worse omen?
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
And so, if the heavens were doubtful, from early morning I would not cease to interrogate them, observing all the omens.
Marcel Proust -- Swann's Way
It was an ill-omened place.
Oscar Wilde -- The Picture of Dorian Gray
Le6n lets us out of the car, a good omen.
Ellen Hopkins -- Glass
The omen from the Fates, when I saw them snip somebody's life string.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
But leaving Neville lying motionless on the floor didn't feel like a very good omen.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Perhaps the thought of that lonely walk across the ill-omened moor was weighing heavily upon his mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Hound of the Baskervilles
You are strange visitors and I think perhaps an ill omen.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
The three outlaws stiffened in their seats, incredulous, yet irresistibly swayed by emotions that stirred to this dark, lonely, ill-omened hour.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
I felt sure the lion was a good omen.
Gloria Whelan -- Listening for Lions
It might be deemed the omen of defeat.
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Prairie

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