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Example sentences for: ominous

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

The paper said the war "showed ominous signs of widening" with the Serb incursion into Albania Tuesday.
Here a historical analogy is illuminating: Only a decade ago, after all, America was frantic about another mysterious, ominous Asian power that was not quite friend, not quite enemy.
Perhaps quite by accident or perhaps with full subversive intent, a headline over another WP front-page story--about the return of a certain movie killer whale to the high seas--sends an ominous message, though: "A Whale of an Ending for 'Willy'".
"Meals with the First Lady have been silent, ominous affairs.
dark, ominous and pretentious" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ) … "an unoriginal warming over of a skimpy Japanese production … an innocuous, if lengthy, commercial" (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ) … "its efforts to preach nonviolence while exploiting it are both patronizing and hypocritical" (Jack Mathews, the Daily News ) … "idiotic" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Many reviewers admit that they're powerless to influence the target audience and predict (correctly) that the film will be a huge hit no matter what they say.