Here, as elsewhere, thirteen is an ominous number.
The crow, on the contrary, is a bird of evil omen, and is particularly ominous when it flies straight over the head of any man.
The Rhine maidens then bid him farewell, and swim away repeating their ominous prophecy.
The Norwegian sailors sing louder than ever to drown this ominous sound, but they are soon too alarmed to sing, and hasten into their cabins making the sign of the cross, which evokes a burst of demoniac laughter from the phantom crew.
Some clearing of throats followed this ominous declaration,--and a painful silence.
But it saw little of the sun, felt the wind but rarely, and so had a white, dull skin that looked degenerate and ominous to a West-end eye.
Moreover, there was something wrong with his leg, an ominous ache that troubled her mind.
The dull monotone, the ominous drawl, the steady something in his clear calm eyes which I cannot define, gave an almost corrosive effect to innocent words and a voice of lazy gentleness.
The herd boys had seen spoor in the afternoon; at dusk we heard the distant roaring, and later on, the nearer and more ominous grunting.
When I got up abreast he half turned and looked me over with eyes slightly narrowed and a faint but ominous smile on one side of his mouth, and drawled out gently: "You'd oughter brought some fire crackers!
There were sounds of some sort in the bush--something like a faint scratching, and something like smothered sobbing grunts, but so indistinct as to be more ominous and disquieting than absolute silence.
The ominous green weed which the sea washes and kisses at the foot of every palace, was in the Prince's eyes, a black fringe hung by nature as an omen of death.
Now you will hear the ominous melody the maestro has engrafted on to this profound harmonic composition, worthy to compare with the most elaborate structures of the Germans, but never fatiguing or tiresome.
Just as Tom opened the circuit, to send the current into the instrument, there came an ominous rumbling of the earth.
Hardly had he spoken than there sounded the ominous rumble and shaking that presaged another earthquake.
He marches across the hall with an ominous air, then halting, he turns towards them.
If It should be not haste but joy that makes you speechless, if You only bring us tidings that are not of disaster, Laugh only; do not keep that ominous air Cassius!
The night owl alone sent forth its discordant shriek, as though troubled with ominous forebodings regarding its future fate, and was protesting against them.
You'd better believe you will," said Ben, with an ominous shake of the head, as though he had passed through the furnace of experience.
I heard the ominous click of the locks of the guns, and cleared the blood from my eyes to get a view of our assailants.
And even while I was thinking what would become of the store and contents during our imprisonment, Mr. Brown broke the ominous silence.
There was anominous pause, but at length Fred concluded to speak in relation to the matter, and his remarks were received with attention.
A sinister fog at the wane--at the change of the moon cometh forth Like an ominous ghost in the train of a bitter, black storm of the north!
All right," panted Jack, but as he gasped out the words there came an ominous sound: Crack!
Suddenly there came an ominousgrowling sound from outside.
But this afternoon the sky began to grow overcast and there was an ominous feeling in the air that betokened the coming of a storm.
Thus the events of thatominous night in December were closing the future to the new generations as well as to those who had grown up during forty years of liberty.
His enemies having succeeded in ruining its composition, declared that the construction of a one-man machine was ominous of dictatorship, and the "grand ministere" lived for only ten weeks.
I witnessed this heartrending spectacle; I saw the ominous procession.
This tragic opening of the young Princess's life in France seemed to bear out Gassner's hint of disaster, and to be ominous of the terrible future which awaited her.
Parker regretfully concluded that he must keep his own counsel until some act more overt and ominous forced him to share his responsibility.
The engineer would not confess to himself that he was frightened, but the wantonness and alacrity with which the irresponsible men had destroyed valuable property impressed him with ominous apprehension of what they might do to him.
Clouds were brewing fast and thick, with ominous mutterings.
Surely the silence was more pronounced than usual; it became ominous to her, and she spoke out quickly in a voice that was peevish: "The castle is very quiet to-night.
It was in deference to their pardonable but most fatal prejudices that on this ominous subject silence was enforced during the years which preceded the outbreak.
Richard glanced at that ominous glitter in Crawshay's right hand, glanced at Brightman, and at the giant who was standing barely a yard away, and shrugged his shoulders.
Of all haunted places, methinks such a destined field should be thickest thronged with ugly phantoms, ominous of mischief through ages beforehand.
Through all their friendly intercourse, however, it was ominous that they breathed no word of Cook or De Surville.
The sky in the north grew an ominous black, until the farther shores of Loch Tua were dazzling white against that bank of angry cloud.
They awaited in silence what might come of this ominous calm.
Campbell was in the room, warned by the ominous coming and going of hushed footsteps.
They were neither good nor many; the strength once so formidable was ebbing away like a refluent tide, and that with ominous swiftness.
Hark to the ominous sound; How the far-off gales their battle form, And the great sea-swells feel ground!
It is said, too, that many ominous signs were vouchsafed by Heaven to Dionysius.
But some fatal destiny seemed now to have brought round the hour for the extinction of the liberties of Greece, and both counteracted his efforts, and also gave many ominous indications of what was to come.
When they assembled to choose their new commanders the time was about midsummer, and ominous thunderstorms and portents took place for fifteen days in succession, dispersing the people and preventing their election of any other generals.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ominous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
