How to Use forebode in a Sentence

forebode

verb

• On the one hand, the streets fill with ghouls and a dark, foreboding horror.
  — Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Oct. 2019
• And with the Ducks already down one game, the deficit left a foreboding tone.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 14 May 2017
• The mountains might as well have been the Himalayas -- far off and foreboding.
  — Andrew Greif, OregonLive.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• As foreboding as that sounds, the old man didn't meet with some tragic end.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 11 May 2018
• Needless to add that the eclipses and the appearance of comets foreboded evil.
  — James Deutsch, Smithsonian, 15 Aug. 2017
• The spot in front of me where a table had stood was now a decaying, foreboding home.
  — Rachel Metz, CNN, 19 Aug. 2019
• The scene somewhat forebodes what was going to happen in the second ping pong scene between the two.
  — Lauren Alvarez, Billboard, 23 Mar. 2018
• My high school bathroom was a dank and foreboding pit, so glad to see today’s teens are putting it to good use.
  — Casey Newton, The Verge, 13 Aug. 2019
• Paul Leonard-Morgan’s score is haunting and foreboding, making the hairs on the back of our neck prickle.
  — Courtney Howard, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• The surprise is that the wine itself isn’t at all foreboding, but downright stately and clean-cut.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 11 Oct. 2017
• There was a time when these next two games would bring a sense of foreboding mixed with indifference.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 Sep. 2017
• The United States’ wars in the Middle East have slogged on, with plenty of tense and foreboding moments, for about as long as most teenagers have been alive.
  — New York Times, 5 Jan. 2020
• Meanwhile, little Tiffany has lived in fear of the dark, foreboding place, where strange men could be seen squeezing through gaps in the boards which cover the back door.
  — Brenda Cain, cleveland.com, 15 Jan. 2018
• In short, jobs remain plentiful enough that consumers don't share the sense of foreboding that many CEOs feel.
  — Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 18 Nov. 2019
• Variations on Faye’s grimly foreboding words have echoed across the country in the first two decades of the 21st century.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• Here at the dawn of 2020, though, the mirror of science fiction has a more somber and foreboding reality to reflect back to us.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
• There isn’t a chance this will go well—and an effective mood of foreboding builds as the film careens along toward its manic climax.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 31 May 2018
• The approach falters near the end, however, when the film jumps from foreboding to outright violence.
  — Adi Robertson, The Verge, 5 Apr. 2018
• Longtime fans will be able to spot a web of connections to the main series, while new readers will hopefully be intrigued by these foreboding glimpses of what's to come.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2019
• This kind of ominous, vague, foreboding comments from the president.
  — NBC News, 19 Nov. 2019
• The result of a Guggenheim Grant and two years spent on the road with his family, the 1959 book unleashed a vision of the US notable for its unsentimental and foreboding tone.
  — Johnny Simon, Quartzy, 11 Sep. 2019
• Foreboding shots, with Darth Vader's breathing over top.
  — Corey Atad, Esquire, 14 Apr. 2017
• But as reports of the fires become more worrying and the sound of water-bombing aircraft flying low over the area grows more frequent, a subtle hint of foreboding creeps in.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2023
• That trick — a beer that looks foreboding but is in fact dry and refreshing — is part of the reason Dark Lager has resonated more than Spiteful expected, Klein said.
  — Josh Noel, chicagotribune.com, 15 July 2019
• There was no shortage of foreboding forecasts from top execs on earnings calls this season.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• This is the point in these stories when something unpleasant and foreboding inevitably happens.
  — Caitlin Shetterly, New York Times, 9 June 2017
• The result is ominous and foreboding in their display, a stark examination of the thin lines between play and violence, weapon and toy.
  — Seth Combs, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• A foreboding dark cloud came over the lawn immediately.
  — Time Staff, Time, 14 May 2017
• There is also more of a sense of foreboding today about Alaska's economic future.
  — Jeannette Lee Falsey, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 May 2016
• There's that homicidal frog/foreboding foghorn/evil tuba again.
  — Meredith Bodgas, Woman's Day, 29 July 2015

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024