Sentence for ominous | Use ominous in a sentence

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• The words sounded ominous. (8)
• Its absence gave him an ominous chill. (10)
• In ominous answer, the faint sounds ceased. (8)
• Her panting was ominous of a further explosion. (10)
• The hooting of owls at night is ominous of death. (21)
• The seizure was over before it could be called ominous. (10)
• Bad news from Ireland came upon ominous news from India. (10)
• Sickness in the sacred animal is ominous of coming evil. (21)
• Then he had to tell her, and she listened with ominous gravity. (9)
• Shelton rose with haste; the description sounded to him ominous. (8)
• She was not apprehensive of any ominous intervention of another. (10)
• The man with the little eyes broke the ominous silence which ensued. (8)
• At those rather ominous words Lady Casterley gave her a sharp glance. (8)
• The immobility with which he had received her intrusion, was ominous. (8)
• His manager at the mines had sent word of ominous discontent down there. (10)
• Her passion for her liberty, however, received no ominous warning to look to the defences. (10)
• The silence and mystery in front were ominous; all felt that they boded evil to the assailants. (1)
• Her not coming to him seemed ominous: nor was her behaviour at the luncheon-table quite obscure. (10)
• The snaky tail of the train imparted to Dudley an apprehension of the ominous in his having missed her. (10)
• The Address, moreover, was ultra-Radical: museums to be opened on Sundays; ominous references to the Land question, etc. (10)
• An instant she saddened, foreboding her words to be ominous, because of suddenly thirsting for a modern cry from him, the silent. (10)
• Dudley had seen the not hopeful but an ominous illumination of the stricken man; for whom came the peace his Nataly had in earth. (10)
• And all through the drive he remained sunk in an indifference and lassitude which to Lady Casterley seemed in the highest degree ominous. (8)
• Scanning those columns, Soames found nothing French, but noticed a general fall on the Stock Exchange and an ominous leader about the Transvaal. (8)
• Narrower and narrower becomes the gorge, higher and higher the cliffs, and strange currents and ominous whirls break the surface of the dark torrent. (20)

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Definition of ominous:

• ominous, om’in-us, adj. pertaining to, or containing, an omen: foreboding evil: inauspicious. | adv. om’inously. | n. om’inousness.(0)

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