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Example sentences for "forebodes"

Lexicographically close words:
forearms; forebear; forebears; forebode; foreboded; foreboding; forebodings; forebore; forecast; forecasted
  1. If it touches the legs of any of them, it forebodes that he will be killed by a tiger.

  2. If, when a person is leaving his house, the head or feet strike accidentally against the threshold, he should not go out, as it forebodes some impending mischief.

  3. For a young woman, this dream forebodes disappointment and unfortunate love.

  4. To dream of tallow, forebodes that your possessions of love and wealth will quickly vanish.

  5. To dream of eating them at any time, forebodes grief.

  6. To the despondent, this dream forebodes an uplifting and a renewal of prosperity.

  7. To see an engineer, forebodes weary journeys but joyful reunions.

  8. To see the ruins of his store after a fire, forebodes ill luck.

  9. To be far out on the ocean, and hear the waves lash the ship, forebodes disaster in business life, and quarrels and stormy periods in the household.

  10. To dream of one's family as harmonious and happy, is significant of health and easy circumstances; but if there is sickness or contentions, it forebodes gloom and disappointment.

  11. To dream of being insane, forebodes disastrous results to some newly undertaken work, or ill health may work sad changes in your prospects.

  12. If you hear the voice of a panther, and experience terror or fright, you will have unfavorable news, coming in the way of reducing profit or gain, and you may have social discord; no fright forebodes less evil.

  13. To dream of manuscript in an unfinished state, forebodes disappointment.

  14. To dream of drinking wine, forebodes joy and consequent friendships.

  15. To dream of a hassock, forebodes the yielding of your power and fortune to another.

  16. For a business man to dream that he has made a failure, forebodes loss and bad management, which should be corrected, or failure threatens to materialize in earnest.

  17. For a woman to see one flying around in the room at night, forebodes unrequited wishes and disposition which will effect the enjoyment of other people.

  18. It forebodes evil to the herdsmen," answered the man.

  19. The son whom she forebodes as the avenger of Agamemnon's death passes his childhood and early youth at the court of Strophius in Phocis.

  20. There is a Netherlandish tradition that to see Lady-birds forebodes good luck;[17] and in England it is held extremely unlucky to destroy these insects.

  21. In the Netherlands, a Spider seen in the morning forebodes good luck; in the afternoon, bad luck.

  22. If Moths, flying in a candle, put it out, it forebodes a calamity amounting to almost death.

  23. It is commonly believed among us that if Bees come to a house, it forebodes good luck and prosperity; and, on the contrary, if they go away, bad luck.

  24. I can see from your familiarity that the job will be an expensive one; well, I do not dislike that way of entering upon the subject, for it forebodes a good business.

  25. Let us continue our journey; for there is a cloud of dust behind us that forebodes us no good, if it reaches us before we have entered the post.

  26. Hatred is so lasting and stubborn, that reconciliation on a sick-bed certainly forebodes death.

  27. To dream of being richly arrayed is good, but to see tattered clothing in the visions of the night forebodes evil.

  28. To dream of ploughed ground forebodes death of a near relative, and to dream of green fields betokens happiness and prosperity.

  29. If a pigeon, which does not belong to any one of the family, come into a house, it forebodes death to the occupant of the domicile.

  30. At rare intervals she appears at midnight, clad in white, gliding, ghost like, about the castle; and the apparition always forebodes the death of some member of the Hohenzollern family.

  31. No, this forebodes that some misfortune will happen to me this day.

  32. The coach which came from out dull darksome fells Into the light; passed to the dark again Like some old comet which knows well her way, Whirled to the sun that as her fateful loop She turns, forebodes the destined silences.

  33. But her deep heart Forebodes more change than shall be shown Betwixt a settle and a throne.

  34. The days drag on, My soul forebodes her death, my lonely age.

  35. To encounter a person blind of the left eye, or even with one eye, forebodes sorrow and calamity.

  36. I have already remarked that in the popular belief the bloody sun of evening forebodes war, and the red cow of German tradition represents no other than this sky.

  37. Amine; "it was indeed a heavy shock, and I fear me, forebodes evil; but what then?

  38. I trust your appearance forebodes the accomplishment of my task.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "forebodes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.