How to Use forebode in a Sentence

forebode

verb

• As foreboding as that sounds, the old man didn't meet with some tragic end.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
• 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 spot in front of me where a table had stood was now a decaying, foreboding home.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• Needless to add that the eclipses and the appearance of comets foreboded evil.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
• The mountains might as well have been the Himalayas -- far off and foreboding.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The scene somewhat forebodes what was going to happen in the second ping pong scene between the two.
  — Lauren Alvarez, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2018
• Stars came twinkling into view, in a strangely foreboding sky.
  — Natasha Frost, New York Times, 20 Apr. 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 no shortage of foreboding forecasts from top execs on earnings calls this season.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• This kind of ominous, vague, foreboding comments from the president.
  — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2019
• 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
• This is the point in these stories when something unpleasant and foreboding inevitably happens.
  — Caitlin Shetterly, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• 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 approach falters near the end, however, when the film jumps from foreboding to outright violence.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2018
• There is also more of a sense of foreboding today about Alaska's economic future.
  — Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 May 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The track never rises into guitar heroics; there’s a lot of heady downtime, the groove getting thicker, pulling you toward a foreboding stupor.
  — Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The music in minor sounds eerie, the greenery is lush, and the darkness foreboding, creating an unsettling tension that simmers.
  — Kathryn Branch, Vogue, 24 June 2017
• 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
• The melancholy tale of Rocket’s origins is so dark and foreboding that the comedy and vibrant spectacle of the rest of the film become a welcome respite.
  — Vulture, 4 May 2023
• There was no obvious precipitating event, but the encroachment of Grok seemed foreboding.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 14 Mar. 2026
• 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