ominously

[ah-muh-nuhs-lee]

adverb

1. in an ominous way.

Example Sentences

He has set a goal of 2049 for China to become a “modern socialist country” and, more ominously, of 2027 for readiness to invade Taiwan.

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Taken on Saturday, it shows shoppers thronging to similar stalls in a northern suburb of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, while a column of black smoke rises ominously in the background.

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More ominously, hiring has dried up and employment might even be shrinking.

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More ominously, the West Coast white-labor movement pushed for Chinese immigrant labor exclusion from railroads, resulting in the Chinese Exclusion Act, the first but not last U.S. immigration-restriction law.

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He told the broadcasters ominously: “Gentlemen, your trust accounting with your beneficiaries is overdue. . . . There is nothing permanent or sacred about a broadcast license.”

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