| And an aging work force portends immense staffing needs in the years ahead. |
| We're told that we've been getting fatter for thirty years, and that this thickening of our waistlines portends a coming healthcare catastrophe. |
| Abdias is fine, his mother said, but two other children in their tent are sick, and everybody is terrified of what that portends. |
| He is comic but what he is saying portends the tragic event that is coming. |
| The solar eclipse, Thursday, portends healthy detachment from siblings and other strangers. |
| In ancient days astronomers might have read ominous portends in that lidless eye. |
