“Don't you think that this event is a portent of things to come soon too?”

“He was the latest portent in the journalism of that day, a thinker, and to some extent, a man of action.”

“To my mind, the sight of a bored animal locked in a cage holds way too much portent with respect to most relationships to be an image one would want to introduce so early in the dating game.”

“The phrases evoke both the portentousness of a movie script and the gnomic meter of haiku.”

“Archie carries volume and weight and just the right edge of portentousness to give the viewer insight as well as satisfaction.”

“One of its aims seems to be to oppose the portentousness of so many other French films.”

“Interpreting deformities as portents or signs of divine displeasure continued well into the sixteenth century.”

“I thought of how, in Tibetan Buddhism, tigers are symbols of strength and compassion, sometimes also portents of death.”

“We gaze at the sky as it allows clouds to drift fluffily through it, and appears entirely empty of portents.”