Examples of 'portent' in a sentence
Meaning of "portent"
portent (noun): a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen
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- Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
- A portending; significance
- Something regarded as portentous; a marvel; prodigy.
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Maybe this was a portent of our meeting.
Let us hope this blood is not a portent.
And that shall be a portent to his return.
I had a portent once on the old groundsheet.
The darkening heavens gives me the portent.
Capella was seen as a portent of rain in classical times.
Their coming is generally seen as a death portent.
It was not a good portent of the level of morale.
They are feared by some people as a portent of death.
But a further portent was even more alarming.
The comet really will be a portent of doom.
And not a portent of some imminent doom.
Birds leaving an area are shown as a portent of disaster.
All portent and no payoff is a win.
The dictionary says portent means to marvel.
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Chrysippus wrote a volume on dreams as divine portent.
That was just a portent of things to come.
Portent was down all day nearly.
Mintaka was seen by astrologers as a portent of good fortune.
The first portent will shake the earth.
She took the apparition as a portent of death.
A wondrous portent in a land no human had ever seen.
And seek to scoff when they behold a portent.
This was the horrible portent of our future.
She was a portent of war and sedition for mankind.
It is true that the color white is a portent of death.
Michael sees evil portent in everything and everyone.
Its appearance was regarded as a portent of death.
That same portent brings us together here today.
Les voyous des pentes ne portent plus le jean.
The portent is not a good one.
Educational opportunities are avenues of positive portent.
In this will be a portent for you if you do believe.
When these lances were moved it was interpreted as a portent of war.
Is a good portent for the balance.
Then that chorus with its portent of doom.
The portent was spread abroad with rapidity.
Yet they grace us with portent upon horizon.
A portent of hope as much as of terror.
You can advance a grim portent descriptively or prescriptively.
I feel this resembles a powerful portent.
I hope its not a portent of a bad year ahead.
Portent of sorrow are cherubs.
A gift of myrrh is like a portent of death.
With signs and portent and hints and forebodings.
For once again the message proved to be a portent of death.
Indeed there is a portent in this for those who believe.
The ancients looked on it as a portent.
Every nurse knows the portent of the ambulance bell.
Bad portent of him as president.
