betokening
- present participle of betoken.
Example Sentences
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Set designer Donald Eastman places the action in an airy courtyard of broken concrete slabs — the cracks in the cement betokening the fissures that will symbolically swallow up Floyd.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2021
Steven Soderbergh is an executive producer, betokening prestige and meaning that his name is linked with the title in every press report.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2017
These days, you might well think, to have your house blurred from Google Street View is the new status symbol, a must-have digital absence betokening your big-ass presence in the world of celebrity.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 14, 2014
His instrument for this was color, betokening light.
From Time Magazine Archive
He came with difficulty, upon crutches, his face betokening extreme pain.
From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood
