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.