How to Use premonition in a Sentence

premonition

noun

• She had a premonition that he would call.
• The last time the Nuggets lost ten days ago, Nuggets coach Michael Malone had a premonition.
  — Mike Singer, The Denver Post, 20 Dec. 2019
• Kerr even had a premonition of how the problem might play out.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2021
• Or maybe his time in Denver will prove a premonition the Colts should’ve seen miles away.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2018
• Franz, who died in 1924, had no premonition of their fate.
  — Joy Williams, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
• Many in the band’s circle believe Van Zant had a premonition of his fate.
  — Joseph Hudak, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2023
• The film peaks there, with too much time spent on a premonition of Ed’s violent death.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• That is, until the day Womack woke up in bed with the premonition that something was wrong.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2022
• Pinkett Smith’s premonition of the Oscars slap wasn’t the only one that came true.
  — Christina Veta, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2023
• No, to conjure a crisp autumnal image, and to air the mortal premonition that lingers in the title of the play.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
• The statement — made a day before Russia would play Spain in the World Cup’s round of 16 — was both pushback and premonition.
  — Andrew Das, New York Times, 3 July 2018
• A premonition and a dream Myra Thompson seemed to know something would happen to her.
  — Meg Kinnard, Orange County Register, 5 Jan. 2017
• As time ran out, and Gerard Phelan emerged from a crowd of four in the end zone with the football cradled to his chest, the premonition was confirmed.
  — C. Isaiah Smalls Ii, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024
• At this time he is always seized by a great dread, despair, a premonition.
  — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• But she is overcome by fear, a premonition that catastrophe is on the way.
  — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2023
• On the way home from Massachusetts, Gage had a premonition of his own.
  — Elisabeth Garber-Paul, Rolling Stone, 6 Sep. 2023
• But Toni could also see that the psychic’s premonition — that Charles would be famous — had come true.
  — Jenna Wortham, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2018
• See what other stories the runways in New York are telling as a premonition to the season overall.
  — Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Feb. 2022
• Upon standing in front of Zach, Gabi's premonition came to fruition.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 27 Mar. 2023
• As a teacher in his early twenties, Zhang felt the premonition of a crisis.
  — Chang Che, The New Yorker, 30 July 2024
• Haiti knew the French would return, a premonition that still towers in stone over the country from a green peak above Dondon’s coffee farms.
  — New York Times, 20 May 2022
• The setting and the girl’s sudden premonition feel like something from Edgar Allan Poe.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2022
• Strange events occur: People have premonitions; the distant past bleeds into the present; a dead body returns to life.
  — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
• To film that premonition scene in 'Final Destination 3', the actors had to ride the roller coaster *26* times.
  — Samantha Leal, Marie Claire, 2 Oct. 2015
• It's said to be a metaphor for society after the Spanish Civil War, as well as the author's premonition of his own passing.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 26 Sep. 2022
• This recurring nightmare turns out to be even more than a premonition.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 16 Mar. 2023
• There’s a premonition of Pop Art in this modus operandi (albeit the inverse of Warhol’s placement of ersatz Brillo boxes in a gallery).
  — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• His premonition was correct, as the Lancers put together one of the best seasons in school history.
  — Andrew Gruman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Oct. 2017
• Fans have speculated that the phrase is a kind of premonition or warning: either the devil will kill a little girl, or the girl/daughter of the devil will die.
  — Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 10 June 2022
• All part of her Queen of Me Tour, and, it could be said, a haunting premonition of the spectacle that descended from July 15th through 18th upon the same arena.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024