FOREBODING


Meaning of FOREBODING in English

noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

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"Jeanie, I have to go away," he said, his voice full of foreboding .

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As they waited at the airfield, Sara had the same feeling of foreboding that she had felt before her father died.

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He had a sudden sense of foreboding . Something was wrong, very wrong.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

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Although the fresh night air was welcome, Jack was again aware of an unusual feeling of dread and foreboding .

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But I am not given to entertaining forebodings.

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Eating in zero gravity was no real problem, contrary to the dark forebodings of the early astronauts.

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Nobody was there, but the air was heavy with a sense of foreboding .

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Travelling to the Continent now I feel a gloomy foreboding , for there is a whiff of decline in the air.

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Whether Ursula shared her growing sense of foreboding she did not know.

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