Examples of 'portentous' in a sentence
Meaning of "portentous"
Portentous (adjective): Something that gives a sign or warning that something momentous or calamitous is likely to happen. It is often used to describe an event, statement, or behavior that seems to foreshadow a significant event or outcome
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- Of momentous or ominous significance.
- Ominously prophetic.
- Puffed up with vanity.
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Portentous implications for the worlds ecosystems.
Their rituals as well as their wisdom were portentous.
Black and portentous must this humour prove.
This turned out to be a very portentous meeting.
I can feel my portentous bulk wasting away already.
The rituals and wisdom were portentous.
The grumble of portentous things to come.
Please let that not be portentous.
Then there occurred portentous earthquakes and floods.
The silence had become portentous.
Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity.
Last week was full of portentous events.
The portentous events chronicled in the last few chapters.
That it would be portentous for both of us.
Temples and constructions were portentous.
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The result of this was the portentous uniqueness of the fortress.
Which they did not believe in some degree portentous.
Thought to be portentous of his fate.
Portentous and proud.
For the portentous.
Portentous instrumental music.
Policies in deeds and words bear a much more portentous resemblance to.
Nothing portentous or polite.
The change was portentous.
Portentous but pithy.
The work is of portentous.
Portentous and vigorous.
It is said to have sprouted its portentous red flowers twice in that time.
I want one and all to join me in celebrating the anniversary of my portentous birth.
They are portentous.
Such a portentous and mysterious monster rouses all my curiosity and sways me to my wish.
That was portentous.
Jest which parades with serious mien and fools you with portentous brow.
That is portentous.
The aversion arises out of our sensitivity to a far more portentous threat.
Somebody of really portentous imagination and skill must have cooked this thing up.
Do not be so portentous.
Though maybe the portentous mumbles should have tipped me off that something was coming.
Around this time the soundtrack becomes portentous with low register rhythms.
Black and portentous must this humour prove unless good counsel may the cause remove.
Theoclymenus jumps in and gives a kind of portentous statement to Penelope.
There had been portentous happenings within the Confederate lines.
But the stillness in the Ritz bar was strange and portentous.
It is portentous.
The Rockets led by Maya scholars They made these portentous voyages.
This panoply of portentous Nietzcheanism lite has had a huge influence on American SF.
This Revolution this portentous event.
This is a portentous moment both for Mali and for security in the Sahel and Europe.
Then we see the countenance of this Portentous Being as ineffable lightning.
Delayed and inconsiderable, but the losses sudden and portentous.
