All 12 Uses of
ominous
in
The Sunlight Dialogues
- He felt caught in an ominous spell.†
Chpt 1
- It sounded faintly ominous to Clumly.†
Chpt 1
- He could quote things at great length (there was no way for them to know whether he was really quoting or inventing) and he had an uncanny ability to turn any trifling remark into an abstruse speculation wherein things that were plain as day to common sense became ominous, uncertain, and formidable, like buttresses of ruined cities discovered in deep shadow at the bottom of a blue inland sea.†
Chpt 2
- Ominously, the Chief snapped his fingers and pointed at Boyle.†
Chpt 2 *
- His voice was ominously calm.†
Chpt 3
- While Nick Slater sat at the livingroom window, shoulders hunched, brain numb, watching the storm as he would have watched some foreign movie without subtitles, full of dark scenes of ominous import, monstrous faces, branches of trees like scratches on a sky from which all life had sunk away, his two hands lightly closed around the gun, the Sunlight Man was overhead in the front bedroom, sitting in blackness like a Biblecover, thinking.†
Chpt 5
- Clumly, beady-eyed, bald as a snake, was ominous.†
Chpt 5
- Something about the land, or the York State land as it used to be--the near horizons lifting up their high-angled screens between folded valleys, the days full of clouds forever drifting, ominous and beckoning, sliding past green-gray summits and throwing their strange shapes over the tilted fields, sunny elms inexorably darkened by the march of shadow from the straight-edged slopes.†
Chpt 9
- It sounded ominous to him.†
Chpt 13
- He bent forward slightly, ominous.†
Chpt 14
- " And then, because that sounded ominous: "We pretty well got it wound up, Kozlowski and me.†
Chpt 15
- The man smiled with ominous teeth and rolled his eyes.†
Chpt 17
Definition:
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(ominous) threatening (suggestive of, or foreshadowing bad things to come)