FOREBODE in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for FOREBODE, such as:

1. The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.
2. I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
3. I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.
4. At times, looking at Zeena's shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings.
5. There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOREBODE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
forebode
 v.  foretell; tell in advance; indicate likelihood of; portend
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  Andrea turned pale, and drew towards the door; he saw a cloud rising in the horizon, which appeared to forebode a coming storm.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 96. The Contract.
2  While she remained thus, overcome by her forebodings, the old clock indoors whizzed forth twelve strokes.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: 7 The Morning and the Evening of a Day
3  I went about, however, with a heart which was full of forebodings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In V. THE FIVE ORANGE PIPS
4  "Then our friend Overton's forebodings have been justified," said Holmes.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XI. THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
5  Their meat became smeared with blood; their eyes filled with tears, and their hearts were heavy with forebodings.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK XX
6  I, for my part, began to fancy my forebodings were false, and that he must be actually rallying, when he mentioned riding and walking on the moors, and seemed so earnest in pursuing his object.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  At times, looking at Zeena's shut face, he felt the chill of such forebodings.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
8  In that temple of art no raw beginners were wanted, and Miss Haines would have been more than human had she not taken a certain pleasure in seeing her forebodings confirmed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
9  His presentiments were realized, as we shall see, and his uneasy forebodings had goaded him pale and trembling to the gate under the chestnut-trees.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
10  You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
11  She paced the floor in her bare feet, her nightgown clinging to her legs and the more she walked the stronger became her foreboding.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
12  That both should be missing struck her with foreboding; and she charmed Mr. Rosedale by proposing that they should make their way to the conservatories at the farther end of the house.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  This surprising event, coinciding too completely with her meeting with Dorset to be regarded as contingent upon it, had yet immediately struck Lily with a vague sense of foreboding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
14  Selden had retained her hand, and continued to scrutinize her with a strange sense of foreboding.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
15  She waited for them to speak; waited with foreboding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
Example Sentence:
1  The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.
2  I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
3  There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.
4  Suspecting no conspiracies against him, Caesar gently ridiculed his wife's foreboding about the Ides of March.