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Sentence Examples The inverted rib cage of our degenerate bird obviously provides an evolutionary link with modern man's ominous abdominous. Silent gulls on the wing are ominous, somehow, and not a little threatening. Next morning Ian wakes up to discover his leg has turned an ominous shade of black. The storm is just about to break, there's an ominous black cloud over Sheffield. His lengthy introduction is an ominous, unworthy and unrepresentative opening to an impressive body of work. These are ominous signs of God's holiness and the threat of judgment to the unholy. All through the opening fifteen minutes we catch ominous snatches of information about mysterious lightning storms in Europe. This was annoying enough, but after I'd used towels to soak up the water, I heard an ominous dripping noise coming from below. It's like floating through storm clouds, getting lost in the at-once bright and ominous sound. A heavy and ominous quiet descended on the room, disturbed only by the noise from outside and by Carl who groaned in pain. Bloodstained snow, heavy cloaks, blackened eyes, Indian rites, puritanical fire and brimstone and the ominous howl of vicious wolf beasts. I concentrated on this ominous visage that lurked behind a children's playground a few yards from where I sat. The ominous tone maintained throughout the poem is reinforced by the spondees that open and close the last line. This case illustrates that infection with C canimorsus may be seen after even casual exposure to a pet canine, with ominous results. There are no silver linings in these clouds, only ominous sounds of rumbling thunder. There was a flash of sudden pain before the blue sky turned an ominous dark black. Then my name was called and I made my way quickly up the steps and onto the ominous black stage. No more rain, a slight breeze now and again, but the sky remains dark and ominous. Outside, dark, ominous thunder clouds gathered as rain began to pelt down on top of her car. A forest lies to the south, darker and more ominous, but just as green and full of life. Show More Sentences The sun had begun to set, making the sky and clouds a strangely ominous pinkish hue. Not only are they threatened by the ominous arrival, they have no idea who he is, or what he shall look like. The figure frightened her, an ominous thing of black with pointed ears and dark green skin. She looked away, to the dark and ominous wall hangings, feeling useless and sick. An ominous little black pig fills a corner in The Maids, a premonition of the murders to come. In recent times however, the label could be associated with an even more ominous threat. Her eyes became dark and ominous as she said this and the clouds began to gather in the once bright blue sky. In sum, speculation ran absolutely rampant while ominous storm clouds gathered on the horizon. But the flood of new debt continues this year despite the ominous and unmistakable storm clouds of global financial and economic crisis. The director uses a variety of expressionistic techniques to create alternating moods of lyricism and ominous storm clouds. Cooling towers, though ominous looking, are a quite conventional technology that allows us to use the atmosphere as a heat sink. Seizures and hemiparesis are ominous signs signifying central nervous system involvement. The sea steadily lost its ominous hue until finally relaxing into cerulean. It begins with Gregorian chant-like background vocals then adds an ominous, vaguely classical, chugging brass melody. Strange birds made ominous sounds, and small scurrying creatures fled into the protection of the hoary underbrush. Forced to overshoot the bend, he narrowly missed both a policeman and an ominous looking ditch, before cutting crosscountry to regain the road. Once Roma were level, that incident acquired ominous overtones retrospectively. Meanwhile another, more ominous phantom revolution was threatening civil peace in Germany. She shrieks, opening her mouth, closing it, then shaking her head with slow, ominous intent. Some say a horrible monster cast its ominous shadow over the peaceful and idyllic valley. Show More Sentences Why did Ella and I have to go to that ominous, ill-omened party on that fateful, fateful day? Any doctor who ignored a comparably ominous symptom in a patient would be subject to a ruinous lawsuit. I felt my heart plummet to the earth's core and sink into the scorching ball of fiery lava with an ominous plonking noise. The table is set with an A3 paper place mat and a pair of ominous looking chopsticks. The sound of police boots grating on the stone floor adds an ominous tone to the prison scenes. Her thoughtless words had already angered her faceless master greatly, and an ominous feeling of dread consumed her the longer she thought of it. This action by the minister to silence us is an ominous sign for all First Nations organizations in Canada. Our first reaction is enthralled delight, but then ominous overtones register. But this self-important pooh-bah is more than an ominous senior legal and political figure. The floors were emitting ominous cracking noises and loud pops were coming from the walls. Afterwards, emboldened by the music's galvanic tides and ominous, pacing images, I barged backstage. His Sweeney is arresting, ominous, darkly humorous, and scary in just the right proportions, and, in the end, thoroughly moving. Numbers like these are ominous to general managers around the league for various reasons. The morphine sounds ominous, but it was presumably to alleviate the ski injury. Some see it as an ominous sign of things to come in the relationship between the public and private sectors in economic policy. The girl didn't notice the gathering, ominous clouds, and as soon as she thought of going gliding, her mood changed, and she became happy again. It drops like a depth charge, followed by an ominous silence, as he composes his words, weighs them and utters each with great earnestness. While there were several white, puffy cumulus clouds in the area, they looked far from ominous, and I saw nothing to cause us concern. In gorgeously rendered pencil drawings from the mid-1970s, barn owls in flight seem like ominous gods of the night. The sight could hardly have been more ominous and the packed grandstands were beginning to fear the worst. Show More Sentences Equally ominous was the manner in which the French forwards shunted the Scottish pack off successive scrum put-ins. By the time I was out, then, it was just Ja and I on our floor, and the sky was an ominous shade of gunmetal grey. Another defeat would have left tomorrow's home encounter with Plymouth looking ominous. He's not so much making a statement as he is reacting gutturally to the ominous clamour surrounding him. The ominous and subtle variations are unnerving as they enkindle vague senses of dread. The exceptionalism of American history is thereby brought into question, with a somewhat ominous message. The film rumbles along, an ominous sense of marital doom hanging over the entire affair. It's ominous from the very beginning, when you step in the role of a pipsqueak teenager as he tries to evade a zombified cop. Maybe they like feeling small and insignificant when compared to the infinite space above and the ominous desert around them. The legal reforms proposed in the Queen's Speech raise ominous questions about the future of the entire criminal justice system. Who amongst you hasn't found those wax museums to be a bit ominous and repulsive? The atomic fallout is still falling, a silent, ominous dust that isn't remarked upon, only suggested. Then the spectre began to laugh, the noise a deep, ominous rasp which snuffed out the spark of hope that had briefly lit Robert's soul. And in the centre of this ominous landscape is a street crossing with red traffic signals. They wrote me a very ominous e-mail saying if I relisted the item horrible things would happen to me. There's plenty of space for luggage under the beds and in the fitted wardrobe where, ominous but comforting, you'll also find two lifejackets. They located chestnut trees with ominous breaks in the bark revealing blobs of orange fungus. In ancient days astronomers might have read ominous portends in that lidless eye. Barely a track begins without an ominous drum roll, or a chugging monster riff. These ominous odes rumble like the storm clouds before the apocalypse and will have you laughing and crying at the same time. Show More Sentences An ominous murmur rippled through the crowd and many turned to examine their neighbors. As the mighty American assault force makes its way to the Indian Ocean, there are ominous stirrings of popular anger in the region. For a moment the film's ominous underlying theme, parental panic, roars to the surface with great immediacy and clarity. The contrivance which strands the cast at this ominous place is a massive thunderstorm, which floods out both directions of the lone highway. From somewhere in the distance comes an ominous rumble of thunder, barely perceptible over the nearby lawnmower. The heavy raindrops fell quickly and loudly, and the ominous rumble of thunder sounded in the distance. The next morning, she woke up to the ominous rumbling of thunder in the distance. And indeed ominous rumblings of discontent could be heard beneath the cheerful banter of returning faculty and staff. People were watching a half-filled water cooler that was emitting an ominous rumbling sound. We were running short of time, and ominous clouds were massing in the sky, but we couldn't resist stepping inside the old church. In the low light of the gallery the effect is at once beautiful and rather ominous. The tape machines rolled up to speed, and ominous rumbles of thunder sent electrical static sizzling through the wires. Black skies boiled and seethed above, clouds dark as pitch surging in an ominous spiral. The still waters have lost their clarity, tarnished by the ominous clouds that overhang the harbour. Visitors who linger in Madagascar often come to view even ominous setbacks with a Malagasy nonchalance. What with adware, malware or badware and the ominous sounding spyware we seem to be bombarded with diverse descriptions for malicious programs. Every hour, through the chattering and bargaining, we would hear a single, ominous drumbeat. His ominous office is a barred detention room lit by an overhead crisscross of harsh neon lights. There are also other secular trends that are generating ominous forecasts about the prospects for much of the Third World. This is the ominous new era of doublespeak about land-use planning in the megacity. Show More Sentences Scotland had won the toss and chosen to play with the wind, which made the fact that they trailed 22-12 by half-time all the more ominous. After midday a perceptible rise in wind force was accompanied by an ominous whine. Equally ominous is the extension of the definition of treason, regarded as one of the most serious political crimes of all. The ease of the try was ominous, as was Joe Vagana's first-minute break that ended inches short. The ending is curt and far from overworked, and the ominous black-hearted villains themselves never actually put in an appearance. The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle. He and his friend Willie Brown would often sit on tombstones, writing ominous melodies and drinking moonshine. Still, the sight took on an ominous face, especially when the blob began to from a solid tangible shape. The sun had long since risen, not that you could tell it from the ominous clouds outside. During the celebrations, an ominous gust of wind blew desert sand over the assembled dignitaries. Her speech is at once ominous and scintillatingly seductive. McKean's scratchy, angular drawings, reminiscent of Victorian etchings, add an ominous edge that helps ensure this book will be a real bedtime-buster. One group known as Total Black was particularly ominous, dressed in all black with only their expressionless faces exposed. Western explorers construed the presence of wolves as an ominous portent. But they betoken something that I believe has very ominous implications. Shenk observes that there were ominous hints even while they were filming in the Maldives. Sure, there were the people talking in the streets and the other's hawking their wares, but most of the population wandered desolately down the streets in an ominous silence. Most citizens may not be aware of this ominous shift, but those who live within the sweeping reach of government dragnets can tell them that life is not the same in America. Before Leah could roll the dice an ominous knock was heard at the door. The ominous mist of dust and sand left by the storm has lifted, and the crevices and gullies that gouge the sides of the mountains stand out in sharp relief. Show More Sentences However, with the gimlet eyes of a new blogger, I detect ominous portents of change. The report is a much more dire and ominous assessment of the situation than has previously been forwarded through official channels, this source said. The Northern Lights, an astoundingly red waxing moon, terrifying lightning bolts, and ominous clouds all found their way, with varying degrees of specificity, into many works. Empire State presents a stark black silhouette of the famous landmark against a featureless white sky with an ominous black cloud or shadow impinging. The derelict husks of each burnt-out building cast ominous shadows onto the empty streets, where still-decaying corpses lay abandoned around every corner. Military drones, with ominous code names like Gorgon Stare and Constant Hawk, can monitor movement across an entire urban area. He deletes that infamous unresolved opening chord and inserts some suitably ominous guitar atmospherics that play up the desperation obscured by the Beatles' peppy original. The dark liquids have similarly ominous implications, as if to underscore the dangers of offshore oil drilling and the devastation wrought by oil spills. In an ominous sign for Western civilization, Bills fans began parking RVs and mobile homes in the stadium lot on Thursday night to get the best spots for tailgating. It does have a strong visual allure with its ominous grey skies, cobbled streets and wide stretches of mudflats that look more like an alien landscape than a British seashore. The bell has tolled, the crow has cawed in ominous overtones, there's been a dark and stormy night, and now finally we know the results of the election. When the dead leaves rustle, the wind rattles the skeletons of trees, and ragged clouds scud across a murky moon, there's an ominous frisson in the air. He looked like a dour, stern man and had a rather ominous air about him. As ominous as all those syllables sound when put together, hydrochlorothiazide will not slow your heart. Even the audience for ice age now seems ominous, with all the kids running up and down the aisles. A sharp jab of pain stabbed at her leg, and she heard an ominous crack. He wrote that he deserved to die and alluded to a ominous plan that he had backed out of twice already. In another large work, soft-edged horizontal lines suggest a stack of stormy sunsets, with orange, rose and yellow scumbled between brown or black, in ominous bands. It begins in a low key and slow-moving fashion as a middle-aged couple discusses something that's not at all clear to us but certainly sounds ominous. In The Lodger an ominous character paced the floor, which Hitchcock constructed of glass. Show More Sentences An overturned tricycle lays feet away as an ominous sky lingers in the background. It is our view that the relative poor performance of U.S. junk and corporate debt issues provides clear and ominous portents for the coming cycle downturn. White and a pale sort of foamy green swirled together on the walls, and the doors were dark blue, ominous and foreboding pits that threatened to cave in before bad news. He repeated this three times and pointed to the sky, which began to resound with thunder, huge ominous dark clouds started to gather, lightning forked once or twice. In the back of my mind I was wondering how much time we had before there might be an ominous knock at the door. But as the drop-dead date nears, the warning signs of default have become more ominous. The audio, which hijacks your cardiac tempo as only ominous electronica amped up in the dark can do, mixes recordings of two timepieces of erstwhile global authority. His dark, ominous eyes bore testament to the fact that he was dangerous. An ominous shadow hung over me, encasing my soul in darkness. His 1978 series in Beirut is at once incredibly bright and exceedingly ominous. There in the west, black cumulous clouds were building up in ominous fashion and the leaves on the trees would begin to rustle. A queasy mix of eerie-sounding percussion, ominous slide guitar and creaky banjo adds to the backwoodsy, boogeyman feel. In the ominous water closet sat the body of a middle-aged man with his throat fatally cut from ear to ear. The drumbeat and synth bass are as insistent as they are ominous. His powerful voice gave me goosebumps as he belted out Shoes Upon the Table, an ominous song about fear and superstition. At midnight a dark, goth-tinged fashion show commenced with ominous artiness, and the crowd watched in silent deference. It's an ominous sign of the times that these best practices presuppose the inevitability of a cyberattack. All these technologies sound a bit ominous and 1984-ish when taken out of context. The threat of Russian barbarism sweeping over the free world will cast its ominous shadow over us for many, many years. One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings is particularly ominous. Show More Sentences Faced with short provisions, poor fishing, a rocky coast and ominous reports from the natives, he returned to the Kolyma. Sir Henry plans to move into Baskerville Hall, despite the ominous warning message. A wide variety of ominous or hellish supernatural dogs occur in mythologies around the world. A window was open, and the crickets were stridulating at an ominous speed in the black motionless foliage. But the tree rings, spanning 1,112 years from 900 to 2011, also exhibit an ominous modern trend. Most ominous of all was the consequence of Northern anticlericalism. Every dark form in the dimness had its ominous quality, its peculiar suggestion of alert watchfulness. It offers few subtleties, but those can be effective, as when the chorus is backlighted in the rear of the auditorium to produce an ominous play of shadows onstage. Sensing the ominous signs, Kannada Okkoota, an umbrella body of pro-Kannada organisations, has called for a bandh on 27 January to oppose dubbing. However, in Three Laws, the profaners are not vaguely defined devils or ominous caricatures of religious alterity, as they often are in late medieval drama. Both Forrest and Macready were playing Macbeth in concurrent, competing productions at the time of the riot, a fact which added to the ominous reputation of that play. While these deposits are typically smooth, round, or curvilinear, some may take on a more ominous appearance with branching, rodlike, or angular morphologies. For example, there is no antidote for the deathly poisons found in certain mushrooms with ominous names such as Destroying Angel, Deathcap, Sickener and Fool's Mushroom. Shot in black and white with an ominous backdrop, with the Batmobile parked behind him, the Caped Crusader looks muscular and brooding in his batsuit. Examples from Classical Literature You membrs, she began after an ominous silence, ole man Gullys hant, doan yer? Save for a stern and ominous look in his cold, snaky eye, he might not have heard. And o'er sacred rights of homa Brahmans chant their mantra high, There is heard the jackal's wailing and the raven's ominous cry! Then came the ominous clicking of the breeches as cartridges were thrust home. The ominous thing was, they did not, as they might have expected, see her on the quarter but abeam. The conference of the carpetbagger with the little Governor proved more ominous than even Norton had feared. The investigatory expedition to the ominous red spot of the giant of the solar system was on. Then, with clear sailing ahead and no ominous clouds, he could ask Louise to marry him. The street was black with people, surging back and forth, restless, ominous. The tea-leaf symbols are obstinately unfavourable, and display ominous signs of forthcoming sorrow. The appearance of the magma under them, almost like a mushroom cloud in shape, was pretty ominous. I felt at once that he had succeeded in some machination against me, and with ominous misgivings quickened my steps. Their paralysis is very ominous, and may prove fatal in a short time from apnoea. The mad glint in his eyes is likely to be nothing more ominous than maladjusted contact lenses. Barely a mile had they traversed, before an ominous crack proclaimed the splitting of an axletree. The ulcerated state of European war-psychology did, in fact, lend ominous emphasis to these gloomy prognostications. An ominous leave-taking was his, and calamity was there to greet him home again. The next instant another pair of scouts swung into view, when again out snapped that ominous, double, whiplike crack. It was an ominous joke that proved the demoralization of the Russian detachment. Enmity, unpleasant and ominous as it may be, is not to perturb or move you. Show More Sentences But in his eyes the fire of fever burned like the braise of a Yule log, dull and ominous. In that immovable man it was startling, ominous, like the famed nod of the Commander. He must press forward to the Final Solution, no matter what that should prove to be, but all the signs were ominous of the worst. A pin might have been heard falling among us, for this sounded ominous. It seemed an extraordinary thing, an ominous object, a sign. He urged that the world should take serious note of Indian army ominous actions against innocent and armless Kashmiries in occupied Kashmir. His fingers clenched and unclenched spasmodically as he approached the trembling Russ, beastlike and ominous as a brute of prey. April 30 Germany Walpurgisnacht, Mount Brocken Witches' Night might sound ominous but it is actually fun. The Jessie was blotted out, and a strange ominous sound arose as multitudinous wavelets struck foaming on the beach. Or was there, as it rather seemed, a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity whichever way he turned himself? The newcomers were beyond earshot, but the by-play was ominous to them. His smallest acts were prepared and unexpected, his speeches grave, his sentences ominous like hints and complicated like arabesques. Bygrave's manner seemed ominous of a reconsideration of his proposals from a new and unfavorable point of view. But all the banqueting and largess did not disenchant the ominous mansion. The spectacle as night fell was strange, ominous, but not unpicturesque. There was something ominous about the spasmodic and stertorous breathing. At this ominous sight, I instinctively seized the bitts for protection. Jennifer Trevor shook her head in her most ominous style at the date. Cedric would have avoided pledging her in this ominous conviviality, but the sign which she made to him expressed impatience and despair. This made all the inhabitants of that melancholy and ominous apartment. Show More Sentences And a vast stillness reigns, mournful, ominous, unutterably sad. Suddenly Mayo saw an ominous sight and heard a boding sound. Its light struck a ghostly white beam across my cabin, and made an ominous shape on the planking by my bunk. Strange and unholy shadows encroached upon the moonlight, an ominous quiet filled the place. It is the sense which, like that exaggerated feeling of well-being ominous of the coming on of madness, precedes the swift fall of disaster. There was an ominous silence and Mr Rimmer repeated his question. There was an ominous, clanging overture to the charge when the shafts of the bayonets rattled upon the rifle barrels. But as they entered the town a change more ominous and startling than the desiccation of the landscape forced itself upon them. It was an ominous sound, with something of wolfish ferocity in it. The sudden excess of her alarm as she observed those ominous signs of something wrong rallied her natural energy, and determined her desperately on knowing the worst. A greenish pallor spread over the count's cheeks, and his eyes became bloodshot at these terrible imputations, which were listened to by the assembly with ominous silence. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. In the light of after events there seemed to be something monstrous and ominous about that exuberance, something of the spirit that is called fey. In silence, which was broken now only by a low and ominous rumble, more menacing than had been the awful fury of the elements, the travelers looked. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ominous? Words that rhyme with ominous What is the adverb for ominous? What is the adjective for ominous? What is the noun for ominous? Translations for ominous Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words omicron omi OMG omg omerta Omer ominously ominousness omissible omission omissions omit 7-letter Words Starting With o om omi omin omino ominou