FOREBODING in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for FOREBODING, such as:

1. But, as she knew by foreboding, that would come to an end.
2. The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.
3. I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
4. My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that it was Miss Betsey.
5. He did not know why, but he felt a foreboding that he would not carry out his intention.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOREBODING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
foreboding
 n.  expectation of misfortune; feeling of evil to come; unfavorable omen
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  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
2  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
3  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
4  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
5  She waited for them to speak; waited with foreboding.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
6  He saw that Ona was not with them, and was full of foreboding as to what that might mean.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
7  I had a foreboding that that stain would deprive me of nine-tenths of my personal dignity.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: III
8  The foreboding of evil that had suddenly come over Rostov was more and more confirmed the farther he rode into the region behind the village of Pratzen, which was full of troops of all kinds.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
9  And she recalled in all its detail the night at Bald Hills before he had the last stroke, when with a foreboding of disaster she had remained at home against his will.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XII
10  He did not know why, but he felt a foreboding that he would not carry out his intention.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
11  My mother had a sure foreboding at the second glance, that it was Miss Betsey.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
12  A miserable foreboding that she would yield to, and sustain herself by, the same feeling in reference to any sacrifice for his sake, had oppressed me ever since.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 26. I FALL INTO CAPTIVITY
13  Connie always had a foreboding of the hopelessness of her affair with Mick, as people called him.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  But, as she knew by foreboding, that would come to an end.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  Jo spoke hopefully, but could not rid herself of the foreboding fear that this 'little trial' would be harder than the others, and that Laurie would not get over his 'lovelornity' as easily as heretofore.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
Example Sentence:
1  I felt a gloomy foreboding that something was going to go wrong.
2  There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.
3  Suspecting no conspiracies against him, Caesar gently ridiculed his wife's foreboding about the Ides of March.
4  The elevation we forebode is of the soul, not of the body.