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Example sentences for: portentously
How can you use “portentously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
"At 36, she died a horrible death, and one that seemed portentously linked to her extraordinary life."
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."
Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.
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.
But she can't summon up much curiosity about Owens, who rarely rises above portentously ironic clichés.