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How to use portended in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word portended? Here are some examples.

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Even for those who did not accept these apocalyptic scenarios, emancipation portended a chaotic and terrifying new world.
Malaria, typhoid and other water-borne diseases are portended as mercury soars in summer.
Asian markets had come under heavy selling on Monday as investors portended a calamitous fall in the U.S. markets when they reopened after a four-day suspension.
That could be a sign of distress, much as haywire interbank rates portended the West's financial crisis.
Yet only a dozen or so free schools were approved in the summer in 2010 in line with ministers' predictions, but fewer than the hype portended.
But, the rapid growth of productive capacity in many places during the period portended a point when capital would face a problem of overaccumulation.
Erasmus claimed that Morris was visibly shaken by this episode which portended difficulty in gaining acceptance of the Government's treaty terms.
In the almost sixty-year history of NATO, there have been few milestones that portended major changes in the direction of the Alliance.
For a time there was no word spoken, no explanation of what all this portended.
The conservative predicament was embodied a year and a half ago by John McCain, whose campaign floundered on the issue of the economy as the implosion of Lehman Brothers portended a banking crisis.
He dug deeper and found that HSBC's problems were concentrated in the subprime market and portended much worse to come. Others were coming to similar conclusions.
For some days a fistula lacrymalis had come into my left eye, which discharged an humour, when pressed, that portended danger.
Just as Persephone reaching for the flower heralded her doom, the youth Narcissus gazing at his own reflection portended his own death.
Feminists of the era did not take kindly to Ericsson and his Marlboro Man veneer. To them, the lab cowboy and his sperminator portended a dystopia of mass-produced boys.
Examples from Classical Literature
He stopped in the middle of the room with an abruptness which portended something.
If a horse stopped for no ascertained reason or if a house martin fell they wondered what it portended.
It was evident that such a state of affairs portended something more serious than tactlessness or mismanagement.
The truth of the matter was that he was still thinking deeply of the visit of Professor Beecher to Mary Nestor, and wondering what it portended.
Her absence, however, portended some danger, and he feared that it was connected with Will Stutely.
But had it not been proven at Umballa that his sign in the high heavens portended War and armed men?
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