How to Use foreboding in a Sentence

foreboding

1 of 2 noun

• She was filled with a sense of foreboding.
• It seems that her forebodings were justified.
• There’s a sense of foreboding and dread.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2026
• Ought this scene to be read as foreplay or foreboding?
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
• Most of the foreboding black lines were stacked like checkers around the pump.
  — Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020
• But the unease and the sense of foreboding were never far off.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• Any story about a girl in the woods is replete with foreboding.
  — Maria Garcia, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• But there was no denying that the lighting down there was a foreboding red.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
• That’s not to say the decisions were easy and lacked a sense of foreboding.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
• There are a few options for this demise, all equally foreboding.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 Apr. 2018
• The snowy landscape serves as a tense and foreboding setting.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 28 Nov. 2019
• But in other parts of town, there was a sense of foreboding — as there always is at this time of the year.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• The landscape was gorgeous but also foreboding, and the hike wasn’t easy.
  — Anya Yurchyshyn, refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• But turning a home’s back to the sun can make the interior dark and foreboding.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• There might be even more foreboding in the report of Tyler Eifert’s surgery than at first meets the eye.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• This won’t be any kind Jedi or even a foreboding Sith figure.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 3 Jan. 2017
• None more so than her best friend, Liza, who is haunted by the foreboding last words Jane said to her.
  — Air Mail, 11 Apr. 2026
• At the time, the news was curious and foreboding, but also in dispute.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• As the episodes press forward, an aura of foreboding is infused throughout the scenes.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• Anyone who knows anything about the Romanovs should feel a twinge of foreboding.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2018
• Only Bobbie watched as would a father, with a sense of foreboding.
  — Gail Sheehy, Daily Intelligencer, 9 Sep. 2017
• This time, a sense of helplessness, anxiety and foreboding hangs in the air.
  — Lance Morrow, WSJ, 29 June 2023
• With more protests scheduled for Sunday, the sense of foreboding was inescapable across much of the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• All the chaos, all the confusion, all the gloomy foreboding is what prompted me to bring my self-care props to campus.
  — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 3 Feb. 2020
• Nothing prepared me for that sickening sense of foreboding and the guttural fear that gripped me that day.
  — Pamela Munster, Time, 25 Sep. 2017
• The tone of this section is one where the feelings of ennui are offset by tension brought on by a great sense of foreboding.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• Woods had just bogeyed the fifth and double bogeyed the short sixth, and his countenance was as foreboding as the clouds out to sea.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 18 July 2019
• The at-bats were unproductive in the moment but foreboding for the future.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 18 Oct. 2019
• As Wyda made her plaintive phone calls, the first grim foreboding of what was ahead for the nursing home appeared.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• Everything from the score to the lighting creates a constant sense of foreboding.
  — Eva Holland, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018

foreboding

2 of 2 adjective

• Even more foreboding is the tally of twenty-one people who are marked as dead.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
• The icy ocean around Antarctica may seem like a cold and foreboding place.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2020
• Its foreboding music and non sequitur lyrics were off-putting to critics and fans at first.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• The blue app with the cheery white bird became a foreboding black square with a white letter X.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• Amar felt something more foreboding.
  — Annie Hylton, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
• While the first movie centered on the magic of the witches’ school days, the new film takes more of a foreboding tone.
  — Rebecca Keegan, NBC news, 28 Nov. 2025
• These dark, foreboding clouds form on the leading edge of storms when their cool downdrafts are met by warm, humid air.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• The notch in the cloud's base was a distinctive and foreboding clef-like formation.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• Ryan saw the reaction his father received and gave a foreboding smirk.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• One half of the women’s tournament looks more foreboding than the other.
  — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 21 May 2026
• The bedlam comes fast and furious, and maybe that’s enough to distract us from the foreboding setting.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
• The foreboding silhouette of bare branches and ravens in flight turn bright green in the dead of night due to their special design.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
• People dressed in black pile up, forming a foreboding cyclone of human bodies.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 8 Mar. 2022
• The result is a tragic story with a foreboding sense of despair along with a streak of dark humor running through it.
  — cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
• The moon, silent and foreboding as ever, will not discriminate.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 28 July 2022
• This French show starts strong with a foreboding atmosphere and some chilling sequences.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 31 Oct. 2024
• Bruckner is content to create a foreboding atmosphere (the house helps) and let the dread creep over us.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2021
• Luzon says at the top of the clip (above), after the witches sing a foreboding chant before bursting into a wicked song.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• In the foreboding clip, a seismometer measures big disturbances in the ground.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
• In the foreboding trailer, black birds circle the sky as Macbeth emerges through an unsettling fog.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2021
• The foreboding slide deck was posted online, spreading faster than a beta invite for the latest mobile app.
  — Fortune, 18 May 2021
• The basic plot is that of a foreboding dream—walls closing in, beast poised to pounce—from which the dreamer awakes just before catastrophe strikes.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• But for locals, keeping the road open and in place remains the priority, even in the foreboding face of climate change.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
• The Hawkins kids have their lives on the line in the foreboding trailer for the final season of Stranger Things.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2025
• From the outside, her house looks like a foreboding, industrial-style warehouse, locked down, gated, and brick-walled.
  — Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 16 Jan. 2024
• The facts present a forlorn and foreboding portrait of the Rockies’ starting pitching.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 31 Aug. 2025
• His politics belong to the foreboding and uncertain darkness of the night.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 25 Aug. 2020
• For the first six months of the pandemic this was a matter of some academic interest—and more than a little foreboding.
  — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2021
• And the foreboding, oversized ranch house, a hulking wooden pile on dry grasslands, is also a hint that something more gothic is at play here.
  — Jake Coyle, Detroit Free Press, 4 Dec. 2021
• Large majorities in polls say that the country is on the wrong track, a foreboding indicator for the party in power.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021