Example sentences for: foreboding

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

  • The national security advisor ordered that the U.S.message"be stern and foreboding."

  • The Pacific press is rife with headlines of economic foreboding.

  • 13 While such overlap and duplication has been responsible for poor coordination and inefficient allocation of resources, these issues assume a new, and potentially more foreboding, meaning after September 11th given the threat from bio-terrorism.

  • In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald said in an editorial Monday that, while the vote in East Timor marks a new beginning for the territory, this is also "a day full of foreboding."

  • The later, whimsical novels of Elmore Leonard have been all too put-downable, but Soderbergh contrives the perfect voice for Leonard's prose--laid-back and grooving when it needs to be, but also taut, with the eerie foreboding of violence about to erupt.


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