How to Use ominous in a Sentence

ominous

adjective

• He spoke in ominous tones.
• The clothes are shucked, the ominous music kicks in, and that’s that, and that, and that.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2023
• That seems ominous for a team that is 3-9 on the road, right?
  — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Now the moment had come, a moment that twinned the thrilling with the ominous.
  — New York Times, 10 Jan. 2021
• As the drivers sat in line in the pits, the clouds became more and more ominous.
  — Elton Alexander, cleveland.com, 28 May 2017
• But after a week of tragedy, the tagline has an ominous edge.
  — Washington Post, 1 July 2021
• While these clouds may look ominous, these clouds have been low to the ground.
  — CNN, 1 June 2018
• Many took photos of the ominous scene and guessed the smoke's nature.
  — Kennedy Sessions, Chron, 5 May 2023
• This week the head of the army issued ominous warnings about the need for more cash.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• But his right wrist was wrapped, and that was an ominous sign.
  — Dallas News, 19 Feb. 2023
• Gone are the days of the market’s rise being an ominous sign.
  — Gillian B. White, The Atlantic, 17 Oct. 2017
• The prospect of a new year on the horizon seems both bright and somewhat ominous.
  — Justin Chang, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2019
• Two deaths might have been a fluke; three seemed ominous.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• The tone is ominous, and the daughter is sitting on the side of a highway, rocked by the gusts of fast cars.
  — Weike Wang, The Atlantic, 26 Oct. 2024
• That sort of rhetoric may sound alarmist, but there are some ominous clouds on the horizon.
  — Ethan Sacks, NBC News, 1 Aug. 2021
• The fall in the dollar and rise in bond yields that went with it have been truly ominous.
  — Robert Daugherty, Forbes.com, 12 Apr. 2025
• Maybe Jansen’s stuff returns, but the trend is ominous.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 24 July 2019
• The dark background giving way to the flash of light is almost ominous, in a way.
  — David Pierce, The Verge, 27 Mar. 2024
• But when caught on video, the masks strike many people as ominous.
  — Martin Kaste, NPR, 28 Mar. 2025
• More ominous, Tara seems to have taken a wound in the battle, on her arm.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• The Rockies fell to 4-23 on the road this season, an ominous start to a six-game swing away from home.
  — Tim Reynolds, Star Tribune, 8 June 2021
• The Rockies fell to 4-23 on the road this season, an ominous start to a six-game swing away from home.
  — Tim Reynolds, sun-sentinel.com, 8 June 2021
• The sky in the photo had hints of familiar blue and gray, like ominous snow clouds.
  — Nicholas Schmidle, The New Yorker, 8 May 2021
• The mobster’s ominous words were captured by the FBI’s recorder.
  — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Hurwitz says the inspiration for the drink comes from the dark, ominous tone of the song.
  — Amanda Schuster, Forbes, 23 June 2021
• So that's, um, kind of the dark, ominous future people talk about.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2023
• In some ways, that second sentence may be more ominous than the first.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 16 Jan. 2022
• Jump scares and ominous music are used just as much for laughs as frights here.
  — Lincoln Michel, GQ, 21 Oct. 2017
• The Lego booth featured a man wearing the ominous black mask and cloak of Darth Vader, made out of Legos.
  — CBS News, 18 Apr. 2025
• The increasing suicide rates of the elderly in rapidly aging Japan and South Korea are an ominous sign.
  — The Editors, National Review, 30 Apr. 2025