| Every coincidence of taste and preference betokens happy times ahead. |
| This dazzling conceit betokens the director's fascination with surface, a fascination which, on closer examination, reveals infinite depths of feeling. |
| Above is a tent-like roof, which betokens a resting-place, and in the surrounding space, open at one side, there may have been a seat. |
| If there are no angels in the sky announcing the birth of a saviour, that cave still betokens a Christmas and there's a search and rescue party keeping vigil near the child. |
| We welcome them most warmly and we thank them sincerely for the fraternal support which their presence today so clearly betokens. |
| His narrow, gimlet gaze, on the other hand, betokens a man of limited mind and sympathies. |
