Example sentences for: auspicious

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

  • That may not seem an auspicious beginning, but we must not despair, for an authority—if one is needed—must be lurking somewhere: either we have not found it or we must recognize the Editor's right to Humpty-Dumpty meanings into existence at a whim.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Unfortunately, the organization has not got off to an auspicious start.


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