PORTEND in a Sentence

Learn PORTEND from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for PORTEND, such as:

1. The king does not know what these omens portend and asks his soothsayers to interpret them.
2. She could hear a humming of noise far down the street, but what it portended she did not know.

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 Meanings and Examples of PORTEND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
portend
 v.  foretell; serve as an omen or a warning of; indicate by prediction
Classic Sentence:
1  The knights heard this uncommon document read from end to end, and then gazed upon each other in silent amazement, as being utterly at a loss to know what it could portend.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
2  She could hear a humming of noise far down the street, but what it portended she did not know.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
3  A needle scraped a disc; chuff, chuff chuff; then having found the rut, there was a roll and a flutter which portended God.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 11
Example Sentence:
1  The king does not know what these omens portend and asks his soothsayers to interpret them.