Example sentences for: auspicious

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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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