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How to use portend in a sentence

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It doth also portend in some genitures sudden preferment, but an unlucky end thereof.
Of course unfathered children portend the continued unraveling of the social order and the rise of the welfare state.
Decisions have now been taken that portend events, probably within 48 hours, that will result in death and destruction.
These augurs now portend political consequences that may follow the economic upheaval.
Most significantly for Democrats, the election results may portend a backlash against the no-new-taxes mantra that's ruled the Capitol since Gov.
The election results thus portend a new period of social convulsions.
So how can we say that eclipses portend anything about modern society?
And though that may be welcome news for politicians such as Mr Ramsey, it could portend disaster for farmers.
Experts who study the industry say the rapid rate at which China's tourism industry is evolving could portend good things to come.
But a cloistered career does not necessarily portend a lack of empathy with the hoi polloi.
The Action Plan for Official Languages appears to portend a new, more global approach to official languages.
The situation seems to portend a food crisis similar to the one in 2005 that affected thousands of children.
In this regard, this study notes three fundamental trends that portend scenarios that call for urgent State and civil society intervention.
These numbers portend to illuminate society-threatening failures within the current immigration enforcement system.
Could the retirement of Rep. Tom Latham, a close friend, portend the exit of Speaker John Boehner as well?
A look at the most bizarre metrics used to portend the winner of the presidential election.
The even bigger question, of course, is whether unity will portend not peace but war?
However, the European industrial confidence indicator was down in September 2007, which appears to portend a slowdown in activity in the wake of the US financial crisis.
This week, after the killing of a Government soldier, some Arab militias and police were observed surrounding the Kass IDP camp, which could portend further suffering for the population.
Without those, the many unresolved issues, combined with the absence of an active negotiations track and continued suffering, could portend a quick return to violence.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It was one of those mornings in summer which portend a thunderstorm and great heat.
What could it portend but that the effects of the poison were passing off and that she was recovering?
A plan was devised to find out what this extravagance of candle might portend.
Strangers in Gallery rubbed their eyes and asked what this might portend?
Atlee watched her, by no means certain what her gesture might portend.
What did it portend that Mrs. Stannard should have cut Mr. Gleason dead?
He stood still, and asked himself what this circumstance might portend.
The knights heard this uncommon document read from end to end, and then gazed upon each other in silent amazement, as being utterly at a loss to know what it could portend.
Most of them shuddered with superstitious dread of what it might portend.
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