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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 previously ominous music is replaced with an uplifting theme.
That he made a few ominous "in case anything might happen to me" remarks to family members.
The LAT communicates the dimmest view of what's behind this, referring to "once-bright hopes" for the summit, and saying there are "ominous signs that things were not going as well as the U.S. mediators implied."
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.
A Los Angeles Times analysis said the Senate was "signaling an ominous retreat from the world."