Example sentences for: ominously

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The opening is teasingly misleading, as if to make you think you're seeing The Gingerbread Man II : In Holly Springs, a small, Mississippi cotton town, Willis Richland (Charles S. Dutton) staggers out of a blues joint semi-drunk, then drops his bottle of bourbon when a police car glides ominously past.

  • He has put his own suffering--as a boy he saw a Nazi kill his mother--into short narratives of self-absorbed Jewish life before the war that are so ominously toneless, artfully simple and repetitious, deceptively compressed in feeling, that the reader, aware of the horror about to descend on these people, feels like screaming but knows he will not be heard.


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