Example sentences for: ominously

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

  • Nevertheless, commenting on the ship movements, Yeltsin's defense minister ominously said, "The Defense Ministry is also considering more decisive actions that will be recommended to the leadership if the situation changes."

  • In a legal sense, the Jones proceeding is an apple to Starr's orange, claims Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ). Most pundits point out--sometimes ominously, sometimes dismissively--that no one has seen Starr's cards: They may show "Lizzie Borden in drag" (Shields, PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). Three conservatives proclaim their confidence that Starr holds enough to undo Clinton's presidency (Robert Novak, Capital Gang ; Fred Barnes and John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group ). Stuart Taylor wrote as much this week in the National Journal and appears on This Week to reprise the point.

  • When we hear that someone is linked to an organization or cause of which we have never heard, we feel ominously that this must be bad.

  • Ruddy dwells ominously on the equivocal testimony of a Fairfax County rescue worker, Todd Hall, who initially told the police he thought he might have seen someone in an orange or red vest in the woods.

  • The only discordant note was sounded by the two hard-line Protestant Cabinet members, who boycotted the meeting and held a press conference ominously urging people not to "get carried away about new dawns and new days having arrived in Northern Ireland."


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