Examples of portentously

• "Art," she declares portentously, "is whatever you choose to frame."

• He announced portentously that "a panel of judges will be roving the racecourse" deciding who wins the "Best Hat" award.

• "Whether you like it or not," she announced portentously, "your father and I have become good friends."

• The clouds which had long been hovering portentously in our skies now began to spread and to blacken all around the heavens.

• He paused portentously, finding in each face before him an anxious excitement which was exactly what he wanted.

• Then they made a trip which came near being a solemn occasion, it was so portentously important.

• The old man winked one faded eye portentously.

• The lad seems to wish to make up for the natural insignificance of his face by frowning on all occasions most portentously.

• The president frowned again; more portentously, this time.

• This section is silent, ominously silent, portentously and potentially silent.

• But the nation meantime was portentously preparing material for a literature which many wondering centuries to follow would occupy themselves with writing.

• Still, is there any need of pulling quite such a portentously long face?

• He shook his head portentously when the captain inquired after his health and spirits.

• It represented a gaunt, ascetic-looking monk, in a tattered gown and cowl, kneeling with clasped hands and pulling a portentously long face.

• She said it portentously, as bidding him remember he might be sorry when she was no more.

• He winked portentously, and strangely enough his eyelid failed to resume its normal position.

• It was, that the crowds everywhere had become portentously silent.

• He looked so portentously solemn, that when you learnt that he was perfectly well in mind, body and estate, the inclination to laugh was irresistible.