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How to use portentously in a sentence

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

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Often hovering portentously around the edge of the drama, he pops up at irritatingly convenient moments to keep the plot going.
A Halberstam paragraph usually filled a page, unfolding portentously towards some great quotation that glimmered in the final line.
The camera tracked around them portentously as they sat at glowing laptops in a dimly-lit smoky room and, bit by bit, revealed the purported secret of Christie's success.
Among the few quincentenary projects to reach a satisfactory conclusion is a twelve-volume series called, somewhat portentously, the Repertorium Columbianum.
And then all this gets underlined and italicized by a portentously romantic score.
I came down to my birthday breakfast on my eighth birthday and announced, formally and portentously, to my family that I was going to be an author.
He blusters as he settles into a chair or sips portentously from a glass of wine or fustily examines plants with a magnifying glass.
The trap with Harold's work, for performers and audiences, is to approach it too earnestly or portentously.
Examples from Classical Literature
A German philosopher, for example, may transmit a superfluous toe or a prognathic jaw, but not his portentously developed brain.
Some, frowning portentously, thought the plane an unscheduled ocean flier who had lost his way in the fog.
But the punch which succeeded was of excellent quality, and portentously strong.
She said it portentously, as bidding him remember he might be sorry when she was no more.
The small stuffed shop appeared to grow portentously cavernous and waveringly illumined.
No one could have been so portentously sagacious as he looked.
This, sir, he said portentously, is the language of the Derby.
Marrable portentously approached the stage, with an open letter in her hand.
It was so portentously produced that her ladyship had somehow to meet it.
Nioche, clenching his two fists and jerking back his head again, portentously.
The pillowcase flapped aloud, ever more sternly, warningly, portentously.
Hetty's was flushed and apprehensive, Leger's portentously quiet.
It represented a gaunt, ascetic-looking monk, in a tattered gown and cowl, kneeling with clasped hands and pulling a portentously long face.
But by-and-by Nancy, in her attic, became portentously worse, the supposed tumor having indeed given way to the blister, but only wandered to another region with angrier pain.
The lamps across his streets had a portentously elastic swing with them.
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