Example sentences for: ominously

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • "We have some time to play with, but we're not out of the woods," an unnamed U.S. source intones ominously.

  • Having spilled their collective guts all over the page, the writing family then began a paragraph that ominously began, "We don't know how to begin this next paragraph ..."

  • "Ominously, merger mania is usually associated with the final stages of a bull market."


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