portent in English

noun
1
a sign or warning that something, especially something momentous or calamitous, is likely to happen.
they believed that wild birds in the house were portents of death
2
an exceptional or wonderful person or thing.
what portent can be greater than a pious notary?

Use "portent" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "portent" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "portent", or refer to the context using the word "portent" in the English Dictionary.

1. signs full of portent.

2. II) Sur quoi portent les Adverbes ?

3. Their first meeting was a portent.

4. To be or give a sign or portent of.

5. The strikes are viewed as a portent of revolution.

6. Capella was seen as a portent of rain in classical times.

7. Let us hope this blood is not a portent.

8. Some people believe the raven is a portent of death.

9. I see it as a portent of things to come.

10. Betoken : To be or give a sign or portent of.

11. 14 Betoken : To be or give a sign or portent of.

12. I hope this is a portent for the rest of the year.

13. One encouraging portent is that more people are using the railway network.

14. I a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.

15. There came a Saturday morning ugly with the portent of storm.

16. Pundits tried not to read too much symbolic portent into the calamity.

17. The historian’s job is to Aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent.

18. • Bodeword a portent; an ominous prediction regarding a person or family Bk1911 Sc

19. In ocean lore, the sight of this phantom ship is a portent of doom.

20. Many saw this break with tradition as portent of a bad reign [ citation needed ] .

21. Technology follows Hollywood dreams; here's hoping this montage is a portent of what's coming soon.

22. I have become like a portent to many, but you are my strong refuge.

23. The event proved to be a portent of the disaster that was to come.

24. So, could Hero be a portent of things to come or just another Jet Li film?

25. Technology follows Hollywood dreams; here's hoping thellos montage is a portent of what's coming soon.

26. For such a tiny creature, the Chickadee meaning packs a powerful punch of symbolic portent

27. Synonyms for Adumbration include forecast, foretelling, sign, foreshadowing, omen, portent, prediction, presage, prophecy and augury

28. Is it true that cows lying down in a field are a portent of rain?

29. So was it ever thus, history the source of ominous portent, further nourishing Bobby Robson's anxiety?

30. In people's view, mask is both holy and portent, and thus mask taboo comes into being.

31. Although the full portent of that legislation has yet to sink in, it is already making waves.

32. These addresses are accommodated very discreetly in dwellings and aren't a portent of the outside what happens inside.

33. Synonyms for Boding include presage, portent, foreBoding, omen, augury, auspice, foreshadowing, prefiguring, straw in the wind and premonition

34. The savage civil war there could be a portent of what's to come in the rest of the region.

35. Onset of illness and evoke factor, relation between miction and syocope, portent symptome of syocope and valsalva's test of electrocardiogram were analyzed.

36. Auscultate verb Physical examination To listen with a stethoscope to internal organs–heart, lungs, GI tract–for sounds of diagnostic portent McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine

37. Auscultate verb Physical examination To listen with a stethoscope to internal organs–heart, lungs, GI tract–for sounds of diagnostic portent McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine

38. 1. Auspice - a favorable omen omen, portent, prognostic, prognostication, presage, prodigy - a sign of something about to happen; "he looked for an omen before going into battle" Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection

39. En la pomme, trois anges portent les armes de la Passion, et en la coupe, qui est double à moitié, est l'Oraison au jardin d'Olives, la Prise de Nostre Seigneur et la Bajulation de la croix

40. As soon as some indicator or other is published that gives a snap shot of economic conditions for just one relatively short instance in time it is jumped upon by all and sundry (like soothsayers and shaman Augurists)to be a portent of things to come.