| Only after a decade or more does one begin to see the tower cranes which betoken new construction in the sky near the motorway junctions. |
| But they betoken something that I believe has very ominous implications. |
| Huge white paw prints on the ground do not betoken the menace that might be expected. |
| This decay must betoken the doom of modern civilisation as it did that of Rome and Greece, unless some new moral or physical factors arise to defeat it. |
| There was nothing in the conduct of the man to betoken the dignity of his office. |
| The meaning was that the unknown or veiled one might betoken a storm for them. |
