Example sentences for: ominous

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

  • Sounds ominous.

  • When he concludes, it is with an ominous reference to central planning.

  • 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.

  • The ominous spin: The terrorists nailed us first, more are coming, and there are too many to keep track of.

  • A long (15-minute) excerpt from his score for Rikyu braids together fitful phrases of European Renaissance string music, ominous Asian pluckings, and electronic reverberations into a tapestry that is more hazily eerie than narrative.


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