portend|portended|portending|portends in English

verb

[por·tend || pɔr'tend /pɔː'tend]

foretell, foreshadow (esp. a bad event); serve as a warning sig

Use "portend|portended|portending|portends" in a sentence

1. * Balefull (archaic) Adjective (en adjective) Portending evil; ominous

2. Portending evil; ominous: The guard's Baleful glare frightened the children

3. What do these strange events portend?

4. What does all this portend?

5. Swallows flying low portend rain.

6. His closest advisors formed two factions, portending the First Party System.

7. A phenomenon supposed to portend good or evil; a prophetic sign.

8. What may they portend for the future?

9. What is the greatest danger that this may portend?

10. What universal debauchery this might portend for our nation!

11. Rising infection rates portend a health-care disaster.

12. These clouds are ominous. They portend a severe storm.

13. It might portend something more: the beginning of an ideological countertrend.

14. The change did not portend a basic improvement in social conditions.

15. To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass - produced boys.

16. They may or may not portend a collapse of civilization.

17. Not, perhaps, a great portend for a new generation of robots.

18. To be an omen of; to portend: The future Bodes well for you

19. For the cellular industry, this may portend a daunting new world.

20. What does the rise of libertarianism portend for the future of the US?

21. 23 synonyms for Adumbrate: augur, bode, forecast, forerun, foreshadow, foretell, foretoken, portend

22. Less emphasis on mortgage payments portend higher delinquency rates and perhaps even more foreclosures.

23. Overcast skies portend a rough day for boats on Iceland's Lake Myvatn.

24. It was a deeply superstitious country, where earthquakes were commonly believed to portend the end of dynasties.

25. To be an omen of; to portend: The future Bodes well for you