Example sentences for: portentously

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

  • Throughout the controversy, Bennett has made much of the cause of "truth" with a capital T. His Standard article, portentously titled "Clinton, Gays, and the Truth," accused the Clintonites of scanting that important commodity.

  • "At 36, she died a horrible death, and one that seemed portentously linked to her extraordinary life."

  • But she can't summon up much curiosity about Owens, who rarely rises above portentously ironic clichés.

  • Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.

  • What is portentously called Clinton's "place in history" will probably depend less on his sounding like Václav Havel than on a bunch of quotidian issues--what he referred to dismissively in his prayer-breakfast speech as "balancing the budget and all that."


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