Examples of portent

• The evening started with portents of impending doom.

• To have an owl calling about your house was usually read as an ominous portent for those inside.

• Strange events and portents abounded.

• The portents for future publication are good, since we continue to receive a steady flow of good manuscripts.

• The portents for the future, therefore, are continually improving.

• Nobody could have predicted the portent of that arrest, but since then the names involved have become household ones.

• If the understanding is still weaker, he hits upon the grotesque - meaningful dreams, presentiments, and miraculous portents.

• A staunch representative of the 'unreconstructed right wing', his death seemed a symbolic portent for the decision that was to follow.

• It is also clear in the documents that this rebellion raised concern but did not induce panic or suggest a portent of worse to come.

• This is the portent of a fine series of recordings.

• Serious as they have been, they are surely a small portent of what lies ahead.

• However, there are some good portents for the future.

• The ethereal violin line is broken for an instant by a portentous tolling, a portent that is to be developed throughout the work.

• These tendencies and their ramifications are a dangerous portent for the nation's nascent democracy and fragile unity.

• People wanted to know whether the earthquake was preceded by the usual portents, or whether such signs had now to give way to the tracings of seismographs.

• He was in office while such strides began to be made by the department in absorbing the full portent of our transport needs.

• There are ominous portents in that decision, deliberately taken.

• This net has been a sign and a portent on the fishing horizon for the last two years.