ominously

[ah-muh-nuhs-lee]

adverb

1. in an ominous way.

Example Sentences

In the few minutes it had taken to drop their son off, a landslide-plagued portion of the highway — ominously named Last Chance Grade — had crumbled.

From Los Angeles Times

Centre Florence Symonds, who scored two high-class tries in the warm-up win over Ireland, is in ominously good form.

From BBC

“We will have a trial on the pirated copies ... and the resulting damages,” he advised Anthropic, ominously.

From Los Angeles Times

“We will have a trial on the pirated copies...and the resulting damages,” he advised Anthropic ominously: Piracy on that scale could expose the company to judgments worth untold millions of dollars.

From Los Angeles Times

The potential of widespread immigration raids at construction sites looms ominously over Los Angeles County’s prospects of rebuilding after the two most destructive fires in its history.

From Los Angeles Times