Example Sentences

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Wrestling strips life’s complications down to primal conflicts, and few wrestlers embodied this approach as famously, and forebodingly, as Hulk Hogan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

After this forebodingly ironic setup, “Beau Is Afraid” sends its sad-sack protagonist on an increasingly deranged journey through what is either a pitiless, reality-adjacent American landscape or his own inner terrors.

From Washington Post • Apr. 19, 2023

One exception loomed forebodingly across from the Volpe Center toward the river and Boston—on 84 Chapter 10 the corner of Third and Broadway.

From Salon • May 15, 2022

His mind likely drifted to the 1930s: Back then Schoenberg had told Rosbaud forebodingly that he had “not imposed at all any reserve concerning difficulties of execution” in writing the opera.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2022

From this vantage, the distant castle on Aegon's High Hill was directly behind him, with the comet hanging forebodingly over its tow-ers.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin