How to Use omen in a Sentence

omen

noun

• They regarded the win as a good omen for the team.
• That was a bad omen, as the team that has scored first has won all the games.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• That was a bad omen, as the team that has scored first has won all games.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
• The game started with something of a bad omen for the Spurs.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• But the strong speech was a good omen for his 2024 campaign.
  — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• The raven is an omen of good luck to the Koyukon Indians.
  — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
• And kicking off the year in a good mood sounds like the best omen for what's to come, right?
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 9 Nov. 2022
• The raid seemed to be a bad omen for a cornerstone of the rap world: the mixtape.
  — Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
• That has happened as of late and is a good omen for the Fuel.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2020
• As a small business owner, that’s got to be a good omen.
  — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
• The wide-leg baby-blue pants feel like both a relic from early-’90s L.A. and an omen from the L.A. of the future.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Above, the sky is both beacon and omen, as dark clouds dovetail over a low sun.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• That could be a good omen as St. Xavier also won a state title in 2005.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2021
• Some experts fear this is a dark omen of a fate that could befall Kyiv.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• Wage growth has soared, but the good news could be a grim omen, economists said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2022
• That was a bad omen for a player who has won two of his three Claret jugs at St. Andrews.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• And what about that ace of spades found on the U.N. chief’s body—a signal, an omen or just an incongruity?
  — Edward Kosner, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2020
• All of those things bear ill omens for Alaska’s 2020 tourism season.
  — Elizabeth Earl, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Mar. 2020
• Arthur’s death was supposed to be a freak act of violence, not an omen.
  — Mattie Kahn, The Atlantic, 5 May 2022
• But if history is any guide, the Ides of March may not be such a bad omen after all.
  — Christine Romans, CNN, 12 Mar. 2021
• Judge Orrick's ruling seems like a bad omen for the CDT lawsuit.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Nov. 2020
• Both teams overhyped, which was an ill omen for this German team.
  — Manuel Veth, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• But this weekend’s celestial show isn’t a scary omen, just a trick of light for those of us on Earth.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 11 May 2022
• It’s both tragedy and omen, the end of the beginning and the beginning of the end: an event to which any meaning might attach.
  — Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
• But man, has this been a rocky beginning -- and an ill omen for its chances in the marketplace.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• And like some sort of IndyCar omen, the man just happened to have wood lying by his garage.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 23 Aug. 2020
• Finally, a good omen to balance the bad. For Australians, there was the tingle of what might have been.
  — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2022
• Friday's drop also is a bad omen for the economy as a whole.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 20 May 2022
• After a tense few moments, the Japanese troops left, but the bad omens for the Panay were building up.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 26 May 2023
• The shrinking of these oases is another grim omen for a warming world.
  — Ruby Mellen, Washington Post, 14 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024