0 in a way that suggests that something unpleasant is likely to happen:
Locals are finding fewer fish to eat and, more ominously, the tide rises a bit higher each year.
They talked ominously about the possibility of redundancy.
Beyond this lie some 5000 acres of agricultural land interspersed with hospitals, convalescent homes, and something rather ominously described as a farm for epileptics.
Her portrayal of individual lone stars, in the heavenly constellations, is punctuated by silences, most ominously.
Furthermore, he argued ominously, 'their laws are considerably less liberal than our own in having a tribunal procedure, which can and does discourage unnecessary terminations'.
Even more ominously, when she awakes from surgery a lawyer - ' what they call an ' 'ambulance chaser ' ' ' - is there to offer his services (p. 7).
At the same time, he notes ominously, the amount of real power that municipal elites of any sort could exercise was rapidly declining.
