He shook his head ominously and looked forward without hope to the fall elections.
Certainly there were more of Noonan's men, and these were still elbowing and jostling, and making little mass rushes--yet otherwise holding themselves ominously in control.
The repetition fell a little ominously on Genevieve's ear.
The rafter was pressed tightly against the trees, but it looked terribly unsafe, bending ominouslyin the middle.
Can't say yet, for certain," rangominously in Richard's ears.
Before he could fairly swallow one mouthful, the air again hissed ominously in his ears, and those clutching talons tore at his neck.
Suddenly the squirrel had felt the tree sway ominouslybeneath him.
Out of a bleak and threatening west the wind blewominously true--a whole gale, accompanied by a heavy fall of snow.
From time to time through the night the Mate and some of us would go forward to see to the gear; there was no need to touch a brace, for the wind blew ominously true.
Some speak cheerfully of the prospects for getting over, but many shake their heads ominously and say, "You'll never be able to make it through.
The other man now was on his feet--and, I do not know quite how to express it, Jimmie, he seemed ominously quiet in both his voice and his movements.
Opposite the first of the open doorways Jimmie Dale paused--a curiously hard expression creeping over his face, his lips beginning to droop ominously downward at the corners.
They had taken pains themselves to make that ominously clear, these men!
The chancellor frowned ominously when he beheld his eccentric acquaintance ensconced in his favourite chair.
Now, too, he noticed that the sky had become heavily overcast, and that a strong wind was soughing ominously through the tree tops.
A number of his classmates had already been offered fine positions in the business world now looming so ominously close before him.
Easy-chairs, with a fox-terrier curled up on one of them, and a low gipsy table ominously ringed with marks of tumblers, showed the presence of incongruous civilisation.
And stowed away in the folds of his fur coat lay a long blue envelope, ominously stained with blood, and addressed in a free bold hand to Miss Belle Stuart, favoured by Major Marsden of the 101st Sikhs.
But Wellington had strengthened his line by fresh troops, ordering up also Mercer's battery of six 9-pounders, to support two Brunswick regiments that wavered ominously as the French cannon-balls tore through them.
The Muscovites held firm, and the day closed ominously for the French.
I picked up the ominously shining disk and prepared to look into it.
It was discovered one day, that a narrow thread of fire was creeping on in our direction, scorching these tufts into shrivelled brown patches that were ominously smoking when first seen.
The wind blew a tornado, and the flashes of lightning illumined the tent and revealed the pole swaying ominously back and forth.
The folks in the house had all been in bed some time; the lights were out, and everything became ominously quiet.
Though nearly two hundred thousand men had been gathered there in the night, the surroundings the second morning were decidedly peaceful--unusually quiet--ominously as compared with the first morning and the evening of the first day.
Seizing his oars in his long bony hands, he began to pull for the shore with his prize, when a light wreath of blue smoke rose from the cotton and curled very ominously over his head.
It had filled ominously when Doll ceased baling to help to drag in the heavy, unconscious body.
She was sitting with her tan-stockinged feet firmly planted on the carpet instead of listlessly outstretched, her eyes ominously fixed on the tea-table and seed-cake.
Yet even rigid Conservatives were bound to admit that there was something ominously rotten in the state of Venice.
It was the period which ended with the earthquake of the French Revolution, the signs of which catastrophe were felt more ominously in Italy than in our own land.
They all heard that thin but ominously rising screech, and each instinctively shrank and tried absurdly to make himself smaller than his size.
Go on," says Dulce, coldly, in an ominously calm fashion.
Now look at this, my dear Dulce," says the unobservant Julia, holding out a strip of paper about half a yard in length to Miss Blount, who has been ominously silent for the past hour.
Other blocks like these swing more ominously yet at the ends of the shrouds, that still hang suspended, waving and creaking and jostling in the wind.
It was for Meriem more than for himself that he squatted beside his flesh and growled ominously at whosoever dared sniff too closely to it.
Happily the girl clambered to the ground and ran forward to release Korak; but Tantor lowered his head ominously and trumpeted a warning.
The storm was over for the moment, but the clouds were still lurking ominously above the glacier, and there was little light for pictures.
The water became ominously slack as I neared what appeared to be a number of great rock islands almost completely barring the river.
Descending very rapidly I kept getting a glimpse of a pretty red-roofed village, which became ominouslymore distinct at every plunging revolution.
As the news spread the crowd became larger, but remained ominously quiet, the two Germans not seeming to realise the danger of their position.
For a long time she had caught glimpses of it, ominouslyglimmering ahead of her, through the sunny mists of hope, across the wide stretches of trust.
After some time the two men were seen to come out, calm, but ominously serious.
When Sampiero entered Vescovato, he found it ominously quiet, and the people all within their houses; at last, yielding to curiosity or sympathy, they came out.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ominously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
