How to Use forebode in a Sentence

forebode

verb
  • On the one hand, the streets fill with ghouls and a dark, foreboding horror.
    Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
  • And with the Ducks already down one game, the deficit left a foreboding tone.
    Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 14 May 2017
  • The mountains might as well have been the Himalayas -- far off and foreboding.
    Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • As foreboding as that sounds, the old man didn't meet with some tragic end.
    Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
  • Needless to add that the eclipses and the appearance of comets foreboded evil.
    James Deutsch, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
  • The spot in front of me where a table had stood was now a decaying, foreboding home.
    Rachel Metz, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The scene somewhat forebodes what was going to happen in the second ping pong scene between the two.
    Lauren Alvarez, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2018
  • My high school bathroom was a dank and foreboding pit, so glad to see today’s teens are putting it to good use.
    Casey Newton, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score is haunting and foreboding, making the hairs on the back of our neck prickle.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The surprise is that the wine itself isn’t at all foreboding, but downright stately and clean-cut.
    Mike Dunne, sacbee, 11 Oct. 2017
  • There was a time when these next two games would bring a sense of foreboding mixed with indifference.
    Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
  • The United States’ wars in the Middle East have slogged on, with plenty of tense and foreboding moments, for about as long as most teenagers have been alive.
    New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
  • Meanwhile, little Tiffany has lived in fear of the dark, foreboding place, where strange men could be seen squeezing through gaps in the boards which cover the back door.
    Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 15 Jan. 2018
  • In short, jobs remain plentiful enough that consumers don't share the sense of foreboding that many CEOs feel.
    Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Variations on Faye’s grimly foreboding words have echoed across the country in the first two decades of the 21st century.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Here at the dawn of 2020, though, the mirror of science fiction has a more somber and foreboding reality to reflect back to us.
    Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • There isn’t a chance this will go well—and an effective mood of foreboding builds as the film careens along toward its manic climax.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 May 2018
  • The approach falters near the end, however, when the film jumps from foreboding to outright violence.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Longtime fans will be able to spot a web of connections to the main series, while new readers will hopefully be intrigued by these foreboding glimpses of what's to come.
    Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
  • This kind of ominous, vague, foreboding comments from the president.
    NBC News, 19 Nov. 2019
  • The result of a Guggenheim Grant and two years spent on the road with his family, the 1959 book unleashed a vision of the US notable for its unsentimental and foreboding tone.
    Johnny Simon, Quartzy, 11 Sep. 2019
  • Foreboding shots, with Darth Vader's breathing over top.
    Corey Atad, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
  • But as reports of the fires become more worrying and the sound of water-bombing aircraft flying low over the area grows more frequent, a subtle hint of foreboding creeps in.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
  • That trick — a beer that looks foreboding but is in fact dry and refreshing — is part of the reason Dark Lager has resonated more than Spiteful expected, Klein said.
    Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
  • There was no shortage of foreboding forecasts from top execs on earnings calls this season.
    Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
  • This is the point in these stories when something unpleasant and foreboding inevitably happens.
    Caitlin Shetterly, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • The result is ominous and foreboding in their display, a stark examination of the thin lines between play and violence, weapon and toy.
    Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
  • A foreboding dark cloud came over the lawn immediately.
    Time Staff, Time, 14 May 2017
  • There is also more of a sense of foreboding today about Alaska's economic future.
    Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 May 2016
  • There's that homicidal frog/foreboding foghorn/evil tuba again.
    Meredith Bodgas, Woman's Day, 29 July 2015

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