How to Use foreboding in a Sentence

foreboding

1 of 2 noun

• She was filled with a sense of foreboding.
• It seems that her forebodings were justified.
• The day was a patchwork of the hopeful and the foreboding.
  — New York Times, 8 May 2022
• But this was just a foreboding of what was to come in 1854.
  — Gordon S. Wood, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• Most of the foreboding black lines were stacked like checkers around the pump.
  — Deirdre Mask, Time, 14 Apr. 2020
• But the unease and the sense of foreboding were never far off.
  — Mary Costello, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023
• There might be even more foreboding in the report of Tyler Eifert’s surgery than at first meets the eye.
  — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• The soundtrack's foreboding and the stares very sullen, which is all to say, you will be unnerved.
  — Jill Krasny, Esquire, 14 May 2015
• But in other parts of town, there was a sense of foreboding — as there always is at this time of the year.
  — Dahleen Glanton, chicagotribune.com, 7 May 2018
• The sounds could be heard as flashbacks or as forebodings.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• With more protests scheduled for Sunday, the sense of foreboding was inescapable across much of the city.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Oct. 2019
• Any story about a girl in the woods is replete with foreboding.
  — Maria Garcia, latimes.com, 25 June 2019
• But there was no denying that the lighting down there was a foreboding red.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2020
• The lure is La Cité, a 10th-century citadel both fairy-tale and foreboding.
  — Katherine Wheelock, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 June 2017
• The snowy landscape serves as a tense and foreboding setting.
  — Joyce Bautista Ferrari, Marie Claire, 28 Nov. 2019
• All the chaos, all the confusion, all the gloomy foreboding is what prompted me to bring my self-care props to campus.
  — Whitney Phillips, Wired, 3 Feb. 2020
• The landscape was gorgeous but also foreboding, and the hike wasn’t easy.
  — Anya Yurchyshyn, refinery29.com, 11 May 2018
• But turning a home’s back to the sun can make the interior dark and foreboding.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 7 Oct. 2019
• Well, that’s certainly a foreboding vision for what’s to come in the next season of Riverdale.
  — Kara Nesvig, Teen Vogue, 16 May 2019
• Woods had just bogeyed the fifth and double bogeyed the short sixth, and his countenance was as foreboding as the clouds out to sea.
  — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 18 July 2019
• That sense of foreboding didn’t seem to fluster Frammy Figueroa, the class speaker.
  — R.j. Rico, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2017
• At the time, the news was curious and foreboding, but also in dispute.
  — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
• Anyone who knows anything about the Romanovs should feel a twinge of foreboding.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 27 Oct. 2018
• Yet the foreboding of the dumpster-fire paintings seems to have followed Krazy into Eden, where the cat is sometimes trailed by a snake.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• The news that has come across our telegraph desk over the weekend is fraught with disaster and the dire foreboding of more dreadful events to come.
  — Johnny Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
• The tone of this section is one where the feelings of ennui are offset by tension brought on by a great sense of foreboding.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• As Wyda made her plaintive phone calls, the first grim foreboding of what was ahead for the nursing home appeared.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 22 Sep. 2017
• The barren landscape — the soil is too sulfurous for plants — and the shifting mists lent the entire scene a Kurosawa-like foreboding.
  — Eva Sohlman, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2019
• Thoughtful, precise, and filled with foreboding, Blood on Her Name is a pulp-noir thriller of the highest caliber.
  — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2020
• As the episodes press forward, an aura of foreboding is infused throughout the scenes.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023

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foreboding

2 of 2 adjective

• The blue app with the cheery white bird became a foreboding black square with a white letter X.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Aug. 2023
• The theme of this year’s event is a foreboding term from academia: polycrisis.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 17 Jan. 2023
• The match got out to a foreboding start for Orlando City.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 29 Nov. 2020
• The icy ocean around Antarctica may seem like a cold and foreboding place.
  — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2020
• But there’s a more foreboding side to the monument too.
  — Rachel Schnalzer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• The notch in the cloud's base was a distinctive and foreboding clef-like formation.
  — Washington Post, 6 July 2021
• Even more foreboding is the tally of twenty-one people who are marked as dead.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2022
• The foreboding silhouette of bare branches and ravens in flight turn bright green in the dead of night due to their special design.
  — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 16 Sep. 2022
• Its foreboding music and non sequitur lyrics were off-putting to critics and fans at first.
  — Neil Shah, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2020
• These dark, foreboding clouds form on the leading edge of storms when their cool downdrafts are met by warm, humid air.
  — Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2020
• The bedlam comes fast and furious, and maybe that’s enough to distract us from the foreboding setting.
  — Luke Winkie, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2021
• Luzon says at the top of the clip (above), after the witches sing a foreboding chant before bursting into a wicked song.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2021
• When the Von Erich brothers reach the height of their powers, throwaway shots of pills and syringes lend a foreboding poignancy to the proceedings.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2023
• Swirls of brown mud cake the lower walls of the home and tree roots infest the foundation of Brian Redfern’s evocative and foreboding set.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 May 2022
• The basic plot is that of a foreboding dream—walls closing in, beast poised to pounce—from which the dreamer awakes just before catastrophe strikes.
  — Andrew Delbanco, The New York Review of Books, 3 Nov. 2020
• The first foreboding signs came when it was revealed that Ocean’s set wouldn’t be live-streamed on the official Coachella YouTube channel.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2023
• The result is a tragic story with a foreboding sense of despair along with a streak of dark humor running through it.
  — cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
• Bruckner is content to create a foreboding atmosphere (the house helps) and let the dread creep over us.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 20 Aug. 2021
• Most people would feel fear and foreboding, but for Kelly Gallagher, the feeling is one of freedom.
  — Aleks Klosok, CNN, 13 June 2020
• In the foreboding clip, a seismometer measures big disturbances in the ground.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 3 Dec. 2023
• In the foreboding trailer, black birds circle the sky as Macbeth emerges through an unsettling fog.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2021
• The series of 68 tweets drew readers in with details about Linda's life, as well as foreboding moments about her last day.
  — Gayane Keshishyan Mendez, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2021
• Ryan saw the reaction his father received and gave a foreboding smirk.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022
• The show cuts from this foreboding scene to one of her standing in a luminous field with Caesar (Aaron Pierre), a man enslaved on the same plantation.
  — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 May 2021
• In the end, the sensation is the same: a foreboding feeling of pervasive, imminent risk.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 26 Feb. 2022
• For the first six months of the pandemic this was a matter of some academic interest—and more than a little foreboding.
  — The Economist, 23 Mar. 2021
• Large majorities in polls say that the country is on the wrong track, a foreboding indicator for the party in power.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2021
• Clad in crimson, the foreboding figure rides toward the viewer’s left on a white skeleton, facing the viewer and crawling on all fours.
  — Natasha Gural, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• The Longhorns needed some help late from the referees to escape Houston, which was a foreboding sign for life without Ewers.
  — J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• This French show starts strong with a foreboding atmosphere and some chilling sequences.
  — WIRED, 24 Oct. 2022

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