BODE in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for BODE, such as:

1. They had not the fierce character boding of immediate hostile intention.
2. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
3. There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.
4. These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
5. Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.

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 Meanings and Examples of BODE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bode
 v.  foreshadow; indicate by signs
Classic Sentence:
1  There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  Nevertheless, the brother-in-law appeared to bode little danger, seeing that he had taken on board a full cargo, and was now engaged in doing nothing of a more menacing nature than picking his nose.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Not Helenus the prophet, though he counselled of many a terror, not boding Celaeno foretold me of this grief.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
4  At this a sudden sign meets their eyes, mighty in augural presage, as the high event taught thereafter, and in late days boding seers prophesied of the omen.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
5  Fairest and foremost of all is Turnus, of long and lordly ancestry; but boding signs from heaven, many and terrible, bar the way.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
6  Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  They had not the fierce character boding of immediate hostile intention.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In II
8  Possibly, if he had observed the brief interchange of signals, he might have thought that it boded no good to him.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets
10  Her eyes were red-rimmed from tears and, after giving Scarlett a reproving look, she turned her gaze back to Suellen, a fierce angry gaze that boded ill for her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
11  But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 126. The Life-Buoy.
12  It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 130. The Hat.
Example Sentence:
1  The gloomy skies and the odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.
2  These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
3  The sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.