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Sentences ending with ominous

In a vague way, however, she felt it to be ominous. [11]
Oh, but this was ominous! [5]
This absence seemed to her ominous. [10]
For a well to dry up during such a rain-storm was extraordinary,--it was ominous. [6]
Moreover, to Venters the presence of the masked rider with Oldring seemed especially ominous. [13]
He seemed but the impassive spectator, though his silence and the look in his eyes were ominous. [11]
The word was ominous. [11]
The signs were ominous. [11]
Still she would not have been likely to scream at sight of either; and the barking of the dogs was ominous. [13]
A most unusual line for Jabez, and the whole matter very mysterious and not a little ominous. [9]

Short sentences using ominous

This has an ominous look. [5]

Sentences containing ominous two or more times

An ominous name, an ominous title,--compared by a well-known publicist to the sound of a fire-bell in the night. [9]

More example sentences with the word ominous in them

That was ominous, yet she ceased not to hope, and thought: "If he were dead, I should see his corpse. [10]
Some day somebody will recruit my 200--my dear beguilesome Knights of the Golden Fleece--and you will see them make good their ominous name. [5]
A certain sullenness which Rudyard and no one else had ever seen came into her eyes, and her lips became white with an ominous determination. [11]
Strange circumstances occurred which connected themselves with him in an ominous and unaccountable way. [6]
And then there were the draughty opera-houses with the sylvan scenery pushed back and plush chairs and sofas pushed forward; with an ominous table, a pitcher of water on it and a glass, near the footlights. [9]
There they silently watched the sunset, golden, purple and splendid--and ominous, as the captain knew. [11]
And then it was discomforting to see Huck eying Joe's preparations so wistfully, and keeping up such an ominous silence. [5]
It is looming vast and ominous on that distant horizon. [5]
There was something vaguely ominous in his attitude. [9]
He waved it to and fro in his wild harangue; he threw up his arms towards the ominous gloom, and with blatant fury ordered open the prison doors. [11]
We had ominous times this spring, with the associations forming, and the 'Good Intent' and the rest being sent back to England. [9]
As he stood thus, worried, exasperated, and perplexed, the fact that there was in her attitude something ominous, dangerous, was slow to dawn on him. [9]
The militia and the town guard were in ominous force, and although his respect for the island military was not devout, a bullet from the musket of a fool might be as effective as one from Bonapend's-- as Napoleon Bonaparte was disdainfully called in Jersey. [11]
The look of the old man's face was ominous, and he was known to have an iron will. [11]
The fact that the name Vindex signified an avenger disturbed him greatly, and he could no more get it out of his mind than the image of the "Niobe" with her ominous dark eyes. [10]
The roar of the crowd died to an ominous moaning behind them. [9]
Soon I noticed that the "Sweet By and By" was gradually fading out; next it ceased altogether, and there was an ominous stillness. [5]
This vigor soon stopped the refusals, and the collection proceeded amid a sullen and ominous silence. [5]
This unaccustomed human stillness was ominous to King. [4]
In my excited state, I seemed to see something ominous in that arm pointing to the heavens. [6]
But here I stand once more before the home of the long-suffering, much-laboring, loud-complaining Heraclitus of his time, whose very smile had a grimness in it more ominous than his scowl. [6]
My client, in spite of the ominous condition of his opal, was not slow to make his intentions exceedingly clear. [9]
But his mood soon changed, his breath came quickly, his breast heaved, and an ominous light glowed in his eyes. [10]
The sound had something ominous in it, like the first meanings of a wind that is to break off great trees at their trunks. [9]
Lise had escaped so far, but drunkenness was an ominous sign. [9]
What does the reader suppose was the source of the most ominous thought which forced itself upon my mind, as I walked the decks of the mighty vessel? [6]
The church bell rang with slow, ominous strokes, far different from its gentle vesper peal of yesterday. [9]
And it not only crawled, but it frequently stopped; and when it stopped it stood dead still and there was an ominous silence. [5]
As a sign of their anger the Immortals had sent the comet, that terrible star whose ominous splendor was increasing daily. [10]
In the music of the singing birds, in the murmur of the running water, he heard an ominous sound. [13]
The ominous clank of the chain pumps beat a sort of prelude to what happened next. [9]
The glorious image of Serapis still stands radiant, but the cross casts an ominous shadow that has already darkened the light over half the earth! [10]
On the hinge of noon he heard behind him the tramp of horses' hoofs and the rattle of wheels, approaching nearer and nearer with ominous haste. [10]
Most ominous sign of all--the proprietor of the Pelican Hotel had confessed that the Throne Room had not been engaged for the coming session. [9]
He did not notice, and he could not realize that ominous thing in her voice and face. [11]
Another ominous sign: Mr. Redbrook, Mr. Widgeon of Hull, and the other rural delegates who have been voting for the People's Champion, and who have not been observed in friendly conversation with anybody at all, now have their heads together. [9]
This silence became more and more awful, more and more ominous, every moment. [5]
There was a moment of astonished and ominous silence, then weather ensued. [5]
The river was low; there was an ominous quality in the heat which had its effect, indeed, upon me, and made the old Creoles shake their heads and mutter a word with a terrible meaning. [9]
Sir, if that liquid had held life in it the Vatican would have trembled to hear it, and there would have been anxious questionings and ominous whisperings in the halls of Lambeth palace! [6]
No ominous hour Knocks at his door with tidings of mishap. [6]
But Horapollo flew into a fury and rushed at the prelate to snatch away the image of the Saviour, while John exclaimed in a voice of ominous thunder: "Anathema! [10]
Whether this incipient intimacy were ominous or propitious, whether there were involved in it a germ (engendered by a radical difference of temperament) capable of developing into future conflict, he could not now decide. [9]
As he tossed in his bed and his head turned restlessly on his pillow, Krool's face kept coming before him, and it was the last thing he saw, ominous and strange, before he fell into a heavy but troubled sleep. [11]
He stopped in his work, and with an ominous shake of his head replied: 'Well, sir, it 's enough to keep warmth in their bodies and that's all we expect, but it's hard on the hogs, particularly the small ones. [5]
And presently the higher toned and more ominous bell of an ambulance sounded on its way to the scene of an accident. [9]
She shrank from hearing it, and confessed that she was superstitious, and, prone at all times to the involuntary recurrence of any thoughts of ominous gloom which might have been suggested to her. [14]
But he who has seen service knows how ominous is the gathering of men here and there, the low humming talk, the silence when a dissenter passes. [9]
Her eyes withdrew from the wild storm without and gravely settled on her mother's face, and with the Indian woman's last words understanding pierced, but did not dispel, the sombre and ominous look in her eyes. [11]
The judge meditated, during an ominous pause, then turned to the woman, with the question-- "What dost thou hold this property to be worth? [5]
Still, when the door to the inner chambers was opened for a moment, and loud laughter and the ring of wine-cups fell on their ears, Aristides shrugged his shoulders, and the Egyptian's eyes showed an ominous white ring glaring out of his brown face. [10]
She could even distinguish the bells: the deep-toned, penetrating one belonged to the Patuxent Mill, over on the west side, while the Arundel had a high, ominous reverberation like a fire bell. [9]
But the understanding did not come, and on that ominous, prophetic day before they went to Glencader, the day when Ian Stafford had dined with Jasmine alone after their meeting in Regent Street, there had been a wild, aching protest against it all. [11]
During this time Charley refused to see any one, but sat alone in his office with a few biscuits and an ominous bottle before him, till the time came for him to go back to the court-house. [11]
Gorgo, turned pale; but it was not the physician's ominous speech that alarmed her, but the quaking of the walls of the room. [10]
It was ominous at such a time. [11]
To Gaston, collected as he was, it gave an ominous feeling. [11]
The music stopped, and from above there came a strange and ominous growling, hissing, rustling, and crackling. [10]
Then he gasped, and exclaimed, "Well, I'm eternally--" and broke off with a low laugh, which was at first mirthful, and then became ominous and hard. [11]
Dusk was gathering, and a deep and ominous silence penetrated like the shadows into the tall room. [9]
I hope this ain't ominous of anything personal, Dryfoos? [8]
More ominous still, a sound like a rising wind came from the direction of the quarters. [9]
He hated half-practice--giving a little of this or that, so as to be able to say that one had done something, in case a consultation was held, or a still more ominous event occurred. [3]
For instance-- 'At 4 o'clock ominous clouds began to gather in the south-east, and presently from the Gulf there came a blow which increased in severity every moment. [5]

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