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How to use betokened in a sentence

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

Sentence Examples
Hopes have been consistently dashed as companies that betokened efforts to compete with Hollywood went the way of all flesh.
Despite all the resistance and foot dragging, Vatican II betokened change, sometimes very colorfully.
And it would be fair to surmise that her decision not to seek a second term betokened a certain frustration.
Such desperate expressions of Scottishness could be laughable, but they betokened a serious condition.
A peaceful death betokened a serene conscience, a life well lived.
The harmony betokened by such alliances is a major requirement of life, which culture and education strengthen.
Moreover, a chubby woman traditionally betokened health and beauty, whereas thinness smacked of disease.
Although the break with a mission church betokened a desire for independence from whites, there were many motives for separatism.
The emergence of a construction model for the movement produced according to different approaches betokened a new way of thinking about watch manufacturing, aimed at the rationalisation of production.
The characteristic emphases on rhetoric and philology, which gave the humanistic movement vitality and made it available to countless students of moderate intellectual gifts, also betokened its impermanence.
After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death.
Examples from Classical Literature
Then Gudrun areded the dream, and said that it betokened fire, whenas folk dreamed of iron.
It was the opinion of people that this ringlet betokened King Olaf the Saint.
Bagsby was a punchy man, with a bald head, and a nose which betokened his habitual addiction to the fiery grape of Portugal.
This unheralded advent of the King's parents, too, betokened some secret move.
He had selected them for the gayness of their uniforms, which he fancied betokened their exalted rank.
High up into the heavens it tossed the fulgurant fires that betokened its wealth and power.
Her disheveled hair and panting bosom betokened that, chained though she was, still had she fought against the thing that they would do to her.
The other, as his dress betokened, was a jack-tar of the Royal Navy.
That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty.
For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone.
The exclamation which burst from the lips of Betts Shoreham, betokened both surprise and delight.
It was bright and lustrous, and every glance betokened a question.
Low and heavy clouds betokened an approaching storm, and we hurried on to gain a covert in a clump of thick bushes, which appeared to terminate the long ascent.
Fifty harlequins, in flowing robes, approached this castle wearily, for they were on foot, and the dust upon their garments betokened that they had traveled far.
Casting a scowl of defiance at the pictured face, he scrawled on the paper, in characters that betokened it a deed of desperation, the name of Thomas Hutchinson.
In the alchemy of his brain, trigonometry and mathematics and the whole field of knowledge which they betokened were transmuted into so much landscape.
His eyes were a little protuberant, his manner betokened awe.
I thought I was once more by the side of the Sphere, whose lustrous hue betokened that he had exchanged his wrath against me for perfect placability.
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