How to Use presage in a Sentence

presage

1 of 2 noun

• I had a nagging presage that the results of my medical tests would not be good.
• Signs warning drivers to signal their presence with a honk presage two bends in the narrow pass, which is wide enough for about one and a half cars.
  — Ben Brazil, latimes.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Whether the Hallaq demonstrations, the economic malaise in the Palestinian territories, and the looming prospect of annexation presage a wider upsurge in protest remains to be seen.
  — Tareq Baconi, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020
• Russian forces are positioned in a way that could allow presage training exercises or something worse, according to U.S. officials.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2021
• Later on, jagged orchestral accents punctuate clattering and pounding percussion parts, and big brassy climaxes presage ghostly slides in the violins.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2021
• I had a nagging presage that the results of my medical tests would not be good.
• Signs warning drivers to signal their presence with a honk presage two bends in the narrow pass, which is wide enough for about one and a half cars.
  — Ben Brazil, latimes.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Whether the Hallaq demonstrations, the economic malaise in the Palestinian territories, and the looming prospect of annexation presage a wider upsurge in protest remains to be seen.
  — Tareq Baconi, The New York Review of Books, 2 July 2020
• Russian forces are positioned in a way that could allow presage training exercises or something worse, according to U.S. officials.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 14 Apr. 2021
• Later on, jagged orchestral accents punctuate clattering and pounding percussion parts, and big brassy climaxes presage ghostly slides in the violins.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2021

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presage

2 of 2 verb

• Many investors are worried that the current slowdown could presage another recession.
• Do Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua presage the dawn of human cloning?
  — Mark Barna, Discover Magazine, 1 Jan. 2019
• Some even said the brief rebellion presaged the start of the post-Putin era.
  — Paul Sonne, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2023
• The disastrous results may presage what awaits the GOP in 2024.
  — Jerald Podair, The Conversation, 21 Dec. 2022
• The dystopian present needn’t presage an even worse future.
  — Victor Ray, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• Kennedy reflects on the legacy of Hitler and presages the future of the United Nations.
  — Free Press News Services, Detroit Free Press, 26 Apr. 2017
• The images and movie of Zeta And presage many more stellar visions soon to come.
  — Corey S. Powell, Discover Magazine, 10 Mar. 2017
• The images and movie of Zeta And presage many more stellar visions soon to come.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2017
• The change at the top may presage other personnel shifts in the coming weeks and months as the White House gears up for the 2024 election.
  — Michael D. Shear, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2023
• Mad About You, which would presage her role on Seinfeld.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2022
• For long hours Monday, gray clouds seemed to presage rain, and the damp air seemed to enhance the sultry sense of tropic life.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 4 July 2023
• That presaged the rise of stage-diving and crowd-surfing, long staples of rock shows, in hip-hop.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The vivid, retro suns fit into a multitude of kitchen color schemes and presage warmer days to come.
  — Courtney Lichterman, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• As to the other question of whether the Eurosurge will presage a new global surge ...
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
• The shootouts and battle scenes delight the young Scouts (and presage other scenes in later Spielberg greats).
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 7 Feb. 2023
• According to Guillemot, this will not presage a takeover.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 28 July 2022
• The opening two-chord riff and drum beat presage the rock riot to come in the Leiber and Stoller-written soundtrack hit, which spent seven weeks at No. 1.
  — Jerry Shriver, USA TODAY, 4 July 2022
• Efforts in the rural Midwest could presage what happens near Texas.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 5 Sep. 2021
• And nothing in her life presaged the troubles that would befall her years later.
  — Joseph Gerth, The Courier-Journal, 23 June 2017
• His triumph in Berlin seemed to presage a dominant Olympic career.
  — Frank Litsky, New York Times, 5 May 2017
• The call for more guidance might presage more changes to the best practices governing the legal industry.
  — Dylan Tokar, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
• But Weyrich and Dobney hope the study presages a wider effort to understand Neanderthals via the microbes that lived in their mouths.
  — The Washington Post, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2017
• As the area digs out, some were questioning whether the storm presages a future of increasing bouts of severe winter storms in this area of pine trees and lakes.
  — Chris Kenning, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2023
• The paint itself ranges from thick impasto to thin washes that can presage those of Color Field paintings.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 27 July 2023
• Investors are stepping up bets on a market downturn, a sign that analysts said could presage a return to the volatile trading of the first half of 2022.
  — WSJ, 29 Aug. 2022
• The Brexit vote the next year presaged London's drop, and the last time London slipped below the top five was in 2019, amid the lead-up to Brexit going into effect.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Vehicles will continue to co-star in the films, and to presage and adapt to the latest transportation technologies.
  — Brett Berk, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2024
• Yellow squash blossoms presaged where squash would form.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2023
• The governor already presaged such a challenge in his veto message on the bill.
  — Austin Horn Lexington Herald-Leader (tns), al, 28 July 2023
• Ghostly images of a hippo skeleton as Pepe contemplates the loss of his father presage his own death.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Feb. 2024

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