Sample Sentences for
omen
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    He remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen.  (source)
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    Not a good omen, Curly thought sourly.  (source)
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    You'll start seeing death omens everywhere.  (source)
    omens = signs of what will happen in the future
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    Right there and then I should have known the dream was an omen of death.  (source)
    omen = sign of something about to happen
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    He was not particularly given to omens, but on the other hand he had never seen this before.†  (source)
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    Protected from the sun, ignoring Piggy's ill-omened talk, he dreamed pleasantly.†  (source)
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    From this ill-omen'd hour in time arose Debate and death, and all succeeding woes.†  (source)
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    It was an omen: someone from Haarlem had been released!†  (source)
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    For the launch of the First Five-Year Plan, Bukharin's fall from grace, and the expansion of the Criminal Code to allow the arrest of anyone even countenancing dissension, these were only tidings, omens, underpinnings.†  (source)
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    There was no law, not even an unwritten law, against frequenting the Chestnut Tree Café, yet the place was somehow ill-omened.†  (source)
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    Then Numitor from his dead brother drew Th' ill-omen'd spear, and at the Trojan threw: Preventing fate directs the lance awry, Which, glancing, only mark'd Achates' thigh.†  (source)
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    Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen.†  (source)
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    "Listen, you're right, I think like that too, but, omens, signs, partial knowledge, there's no logical way you could ..." why couldn't I ever get a sentence to come out right around her?†  (source)
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