How to Use omen in a Sentence

omen

noun

• They regarded the win as a good omen for the team.
• That was a bad omen, as the team that has scored first has won all the games.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
• Banked-in 3s have been a bad omen for Ohio State this year.
  — Bill Landis, cleveland.com, 15 Mar. 2018
• That was a bad omen, as the team that has scored first has won all games.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
• The game started with something of a bad omen for the Spurs.
  — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 11 Feb. 2020
• But the strong speech was a good omen for his 2024 campaign.
  — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
• The raven is an omen of good luck to the Koyukon Indians.
  — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
• And kicking off the year in a good mood sounds like the best omen for what's to come, right?
  — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 9 Nov. 2022
• This is almost an omen that Noah is bound to be the next Zac!
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Sep. 2018
• The raid seemed to be a bad omen for a cornerstone of the rap world: the mixtape.
  — Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
• There are omens, like Tony’s bloody nose on the first day of shooting.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 June 2024
• That has happened as of late and is a good omen for the Fuel.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2020
• Name carvings and a bad omen The names of iconic authors line the top of the walls.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, Indianapolis Star, 16 Sep. 2017
• That felt like a good omen, and Dan asked Camille to be his girlfriend.
  — Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• About that Latin name: the genus name Aegolius is a type of screech owl thought to be a bird of ill omen.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2018
• To be fair, there was some omens hovering over the project.
  — Zoe Guy, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2024
• As a small business owner, that’s got to be a good omen.
  — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
• Is the end of the 3-point streak a bad omen for Kentucky's tournament chances?
  — Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 15 Mar. 2018
• Uzomah thinks the season-ending surge is a good omen for him and the team.
  — Mark Inabinett, AL.com, 7 July 2017
• This time around, the Fed seemed to take the omen seriously.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• The wide-leg baby-blue pants feel like both a relic from early-’90s L.A. and an omen from the L.A. of the future.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• Above, the sky is both beacon and omen, as dark clouds dovetail over a low sun.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
• That could be a good omen as St. Xavier also won a state title in 2005.
  — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2021
• Some experts fear this is a dark omen of a fate that could befall Kyiv.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
• Wage growth has soared, but the good news could be a grim omen, economists said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2022
• Perhaps, that should have been my omen that something was out of place.
  — Phillip Morris, cleveland.com, 25 Oct. 2017
• Fitzgerald’s injury was, sort of, an omen of change around here.
  — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 27 June 2018
• The omens are good, and Democrats have reason to hope that 2016 was just an aberration.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
• That clearly is not a good omen for a UC team that has gained only eight turnovers.
  — Tom Groeschen, Cincinnati.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The black dust that caked Margaret Gordon’s Venetian blinds was the first bad omen.
  — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024