How to Use inauspicious in a Sentence

inauspicious

adjective

• Despite its inauspicious beginnings, the company eventually became very profitable.
• New York City is off to an inauspicious start on the crime front in 2022.
  — William J. Bratton and Rafael A. Mangual, WSJ, 16 Feb. 2022
• Woods's round got off to an inauspicious start, as his drive on the long par-4 1st missed badly to the left.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 6 May 2018
• The road trip ends in Atlanta, the place the Phillies’ season got off to an inauspicious start.
  — Bob Brookover, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
• Taylor and the Bengals are in the midst of an inauspicious time.
  — Tyler Dragon, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2021
• The team had an inauspicious start to the season and limped into the playoffs with a 3-4 record.
  — Emmett Hall, sun-sentinel.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• The eight-game trip had an inauspicious start Monday when the Guardians scored five runs in the first inning on the way to an 8-4 win.
  — Lamond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 13 July 2022
• Gasol had an inauspicious start to his time with the Lakers.
  — Broderick Turner Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Watson, 39, rose from that inauspicious start to become one of the best players in the world.
  — Gary D'amato, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 May 2018
• Its fifth game was against medal favorite Team Canada, and the game got off to an inauspicious start.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 13 Feb. 2022
• The inauspicious start marked a career first for Brees, now in his 20th NFL season.
  — Luke Johnson, NOLA.com, 20 Dec. 2020
• Still, there were signs that the gathering was off to an inauspicious start.
  — Nicolas Parasie, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• The set got off to an inauspicious start for Bouchard, who was aced as Townsend’s first left-handed serve twisted away from her.
  — Matt Szabo, Daily Pilot, 23 July 2019
• The inauspicious run of injuries this summer has started to feel a lot like 2015.
  — Jenny Vrentas, SI.com, 13 Aug. 2017
• His bold, new venture got off to an inauspicious start, though.
  — Bob Carlton | [e-mail], al, 14 Oct. 2020
• Despite the inauspicious start, Bynes has survived a decade in the league and earning a Super Bowl ring with the Ravens as the champions of the 2012 season.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 11 Aug. 2021
• An inauspicious start Jett Howard hit a 3-pointer on the game's first possession and then Michigan went cold from the field.
  — Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 5 Mar. 2023
• The incident comes at an inauspicious moment for the U.S. in Afghanistan.
  — Habib Khan Totakhil, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
• The Bears debut for both Williams and Waldron was inauspicious.
  — Colleen Kane, Chicago Tribune, 15 Sep. 2024
• Dinwiddie had an inauspicious in his first years with the Detroit Pistons, who took the combo guard with the eighth pick of the second round.
  — Chris Sims, Indianapolis Star, 6 Feb. 2020
• But the ship's maiden voyage has gotten off to a rather inauspicious start.
  — Washington Post, Houston Chronicle, 22 Jan. 2018
• Fruit tarts are often made with pâte brisée, an inauspicious name.
  — Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2020
• Adding to these inauspicious distractions is the prospect of Donald Trump returning to the White House next year.
  — Luke McGee, CNN, 22 Feb. 2024
• Add a volatile Elvis impersonator and a failing Cadillac to that mix, and the whole thing seemed inauspicious.
  — Annalisa Quinn, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2022
• Like many start-ups, the Gentleman's Box had an inauspicious start.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 23 July 2017
• But this is hardly the first time the F-16, one of the U.S. Military’s five kinds of fighter jets, has made headlines for inauspicious reasons.
  — Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 17 May 2019
• That suggests Snap’s second year may prove at least as inauspicious as its first.
  — Elizabeth Winkler, WSJ, 1 May 2018
• Each name is added to an inauspicious roll call of the Black men and women killed at the hands of police that stretches back generations.
  — Chelsea Bailey, CNN, 9 Aug. 2024
• Phil Mickelson's third round at the Masters got off to an inauspicious start.
  — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• Lucille is not a person but a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that’s used with inauspicious results on the heads of enemies of one the show’s bad guys.
  — Glenn Garvin, miamiherald, 14 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024