Example sentences for: auspicious

How can you use “auspicious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Despite such auspicious beginnings, it had a short life; the palace was razed with the breakup of the Caliphate of Córdoba in the very early 11th century.

  • The geomancers in 794 decided that Heian-kyo (modern Kyoto) would be an auspicious site for the imperial family.

  • While it seems likely that fazio the noun as well as Fazio the name descend from an otherwise benign, even auspicious name, the history of other names is not so easy to untangle.

  • They called it a kairos --an auspicious moment, le moment juste . The existential philosopher Martin Heidegger translated the concept into the German word Augenblick , an instant that occurs in the blink of an eye.

  • In 1407 the Emperor Yongle ordered a search for a suitable burial place with auspicious “wind and water” conditions, as well as appropriate grandeur.


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