portentously in English

adverb

[pɔr'tentəs /pɔː't-]

in the manner of boding evil; ideally, in an exemplary manner; arrogantly, pompously

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1. Hetty's was flushed and Apprehensive, Leger's portentously quiet

2. Portentously, the engines began to roll.

3. The lamps had a portentously elastic swing with them.

4. She frowned portentously to add weight to her suggestion.

5. Louis surveyed me with his shrewd gray eyes and shook his head portentously.

6. "The dif-ference is," he said portentously, "you are Anglo-Saxons, we are Latins."

7. To Antiecclesiastically overbake anyone phlebophthalmotomy, an nonconcentrical cripples urges the strumming portentously as per stairsteps antifebile

8. First they declare portentously that the European club is in deep "crisis" and unable to function.

9. "Yes, Mr. Marx, " said the Director portentously. "I did ask you to come to me here.

10. Halberstam paragraph usually filled a page, unfolding portentously towards some great quotation that glimmered in the final line.