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Sentence Examples
| Hopes have been consistently dashed as companies that betokened efforts to compete with Hollywood went the way of all flesh. |
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| Despite all the resistance and foot dragging, Vatican II betokened change, sometimes very colorfully. |
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| And it would be fair to surmise that her decision not to seek a second term betokened a certain frustration. |
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| Such desperate expressions of Scottishness could be laughable, but they betokened a serious condition. |
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| A peaceful death betokened a serene conscience, a life well lived. |
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| The harmony betokened by such alliances is a major requirement of life, which culture and education strengthen. |
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| Moreover, a chubby woman traditionally betokened health and beauty, whereas thinness smacked of disease. |
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| Although the break with a mission church betokened a desire for independence from whites, there were many motives for separatism. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| After breakfast, Charles Macdoodle told Lady Mary that it was a tradition in the family that those rumbling carriages on the terrace betokened death. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Then Gudrun areded the dream, and said that it betokened fire, whenas folk dreamed of iron. |
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| It was the opinion of people that this ringlet betokened King Olaf the Saint. |
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| Bagsby was a punchy man, with a bald head, and a nose which betokened his habitual addiction to the fiery grape of Portugal. |
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| This unheralded advent of the King's parents, too, betokened some secret move. |
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| He had selected them for the gayness of their uniforms, which he fancied betokened their exalted rank. |
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| High up into the heavens it tossed the fulgurant fires that betokened its wealth and power. |
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| 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. |
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| The other, as his dress betokened, was a jack-tar of the Royal Navy. |
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| That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty. |
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| For I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. |
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| The exclamation which burst from the lips of Betts Shoreham, betokened both surprise and delight. |
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| It was bright and lustrous, and every glance betokened a question. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| In the alchemy of his brain, trigonometry and mathematics and the whole field of knowledge which they betokened were transmuted into so much landscape. |
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| His eyes were a little protuberant, his manner betokened awe. |
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| 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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