All 16 Uses of
ominous
in
Call It Sleep
- An ominous pride dragged at his voice.†
Book Pro.ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- He shook his finger at David ominously.†
Book 1 *
- "Well!" ominously.†
Book 1
- "And as for him—" he stared ominously at the gushing water—"if he doesn't change, he'd better be careful!†
Book 1
- He repeated ominously.†
Book 1
- The ominous purple vein began to throb on his temple.†
Book 2ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- Silence only made his father more ominous.†
Book 2
- "Thieves!" he shook his hand at them ominously.†
Book 3
- The rabbi's chin went down, his voice diving past it to an ominous bass.†
Book 3ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- Dat's a sheeney block, Pedey," prompted the second freckled lieutenant with ominous eagerness.†
Book 3
- Maybe you ain' gonna ged mobilized," Kushy answered ominously.†
Book 4
- The sinker jogged ominously across the cellar floor.†
Book 4
- His blood, which a moment before had been chiming in bright abandon, deepened its stress, weighted its rhythm to an ominous tolling.†
Book 4ominous = threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)
- Again that silence and then as though the silence were creaking with its own strain, the ominous grating sound of a stretched cable, his father's grinding teeth.†
Book 4
- I'll tell you in a moment," he answered ominously.†
Book 4
- "You ask me?" ominously.†
Book 4