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verb

variants also forboding
present participle of forebode

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of foreboding
Adjective
What began as an ordinary day suddenly turned with a phone call from an unknown number, triggering a foreboding sense of something deeply wrong. Sonal Nain, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025 Irving’s outie is also tortured by visions of a long, foreboding black hallway with an elevator, the red arrow ominously pointing down, farther into the building. Erin Qualey, Vulture, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
In his images of the World Trade Center, the passage of time has once again added to his foreboding. Benjamin Moser, The New Yorker, 8 Oct. 2024 But most foreboding is Falcone’s daughter and Alberto’s sister Sofia, released from Arkham Asylum after years inside and with major grievances against Oz, who used to be her driver. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for foreboding 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreboding
Adjective
  • Listen to this article A student in North Haven was arrested Monday after allegedly sending a photo of a firearm to a group chat with other students which was accompanied by an ominous message advising them not to go to school.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Zhu, working with cinematographer Daisy Zhou, stages these scenes with hints of horror; the intimate vantage points are particularly ominous against Eli Keszler’s haunting score.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • This is a place to check one’s personal life at the door, and the occasional intrusions from outside feel forced.
    Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2025
  • Several of the other bedrooms also have skylights and views of the grounds, as well as spacious closets and private bathrooms finished with rare stones and custom metalwork that give each their own subtle feel.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As the two settle into their new house, Michael Shanks, the film’s Australian writer-director, pulls an anything-goes series of shocking portents.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • In Crimson Peak, however, these terrifying tragic figures are also a warning, an ominous portent of her doom, a frantic attempt to save her from it.
    Gayle Sequeira, Vulture, 20 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Over the course of January 2025, Williams watched in dread as social media videos and news coverage emerged showing Southern California residents whose homes had been destroyed sifting through the rubble unmasked.
    Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Green takes care with set-up and establishes good anticipatory dread, but doesn’t leave enough time to deliver on the horror.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Jan. 2025
Verb
  • As one manifestation of Carter’s commitment, his administration began to oppose loans from international financial institutions to rights-abusing governments, promising to provide financial support only after these countries demonstrated concrete improvements on human rights.
    Michael Posner, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Was Knies’ promising rookie season not necessarily a sign of things to come?
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • Director Josh Ruben, along with screenwriters Phillip Murphy, Christopher Landon and Michael Kennedy, craftily concocts a sweetly sinister genre mashup, blending romantic comedy tropes with slasher movie fodder.
    Courtney Howard, Variety, 31 Jan. 2025
  • The typically magnetic Ramírez looms large, delivering a masterful turn as a well-heeled but enigmatically sinister figure who may or may not have his client’s best interest at heart.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Growing up in tension, fearing a parent’s volatility, can leave a young person with painful but shrewd premonitions about possible danger and with acute impulses to protection.
    Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • That premonition rings true when his parents (Tara Buckman, Geoff Hansen) are slaughtered by a carjacker dressed as Old Saint Nick himself (Charles Dierkop) just hours later, condemning the toddler into further moral compass trauma at an orphanage run by a domineering Mother Superior nun from Hell.
    Huntley Woods, EW.com, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • While Cal State Fullerton isn’t the first campus to launch a Project Rebound program, the university has been among the forerunners in its expansion, becoming a model for Project Rebound programs at the other universities in the CSU system.
    Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 28 Jan. 2025
  • Each night, Americans were reminded of the crisis on TV, as ABC created nightly reports called America Held Hostage with Ted Koppel, the forerunner to Nightline.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Dec. 2024

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