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How to use portending in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word portending? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
The signs portending deflation are all-around for those who have eyes to see.
But perhaps the dreadful birth defects and mutated plants are not evidence at all, but signs and wonders portending some great event.
Fushida became very excited by this natural phenomenon, viewing it as a mystical sign portending the success of the sneak attack.
Both of them were eccentric originals, portending the radical pluralism that overtook the art world in the next generation.
Hours earlier, there were no outward signs portending the unfortunate turn for I'll Have Another.
Finally, the largest mission, that of Sainte-Marie, was abandoned, portending the end of Huronia.
Officials said the season's first wildfires burned with an intensity usually not seen until late summer, portending an especially dangerous and costly summer.
Many will see the Asian disaster as portending the advent of doomsday.
First of all, the Council, through the Secretariat, should doubtless be better and more quickly informed of the multiple precursors portending a crisis.
For this and other reasons, the Blueprint should be viewed as a dynamic document, reflecting collective views and portending further changes as the process of service renewal within the government evolves.
Thus, one Scandinavian colleague saw 'flexible labour markets' as portending a fundamental shift in favour of the employers, soon to render all employees part-time.
Aldebaran is considered a fortunate star, portending riches and honor.
A demon black cat is said to roam the Capitol, portending doom.
The population is growing at a relatively rapid rate, and more than two-fifths of the population is under age 15, portending continued high growth rates well into the 21st century.
The play accounted for most of Michigan's 119 yards in the first half, portending a season-opener in which Alabama blasted a Big Ten opponent and again showed off the gap between the SEC and other conferences.
Examples from Classical Literature
His aversion to the sound of the brook can, therefore, come from no conscious knowledge of a portending catastrophe in the dream.
What's this fairy story about a portending lynching that Barton's been stuffing me with?
But certain it is, a great change, bordering on revolution, was portending.
A comet she seemed, portending a fiery doom to the hearts of many in that presence hall.
It was a summer sunset, portending for the land a morrow of great heat.
The air was close, portending the storm that was to break later.
Did that first division, portending a second division, afflict him?
But late in February there was a great bustle, portending movement.
It was a dark summer night, shot through with infrequent shimmers of lightning silently firing a cloud lying low in the west and portending a storm.
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