ill-boding
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of ill-boding
First recorded in 1585–95
Example Sentences
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They came to the Rio Merarwi and here, stars ill-boding, three of their canoes capsized, dumping out five months' provender and sending the party speedily homewards.
From Time Magazine Archive
With those ill-boding words the third day closed since Pippin came to Minas Tirith.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
She was, besides, a paramour to the Red Rapparee, and he attributed much of her dark and ill-boding prophecy to a hostile and malignant spirit.
From Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton
In the shadow of the house he began to show ill-boding symptoms.
From The Seventh Noon by Edmund Frederick
It was as if something had come between them, something restless and ill-boding that broke the soft swell of the waves on which they drifted happily—something, he knew not what, that made its presence felt.
From The Song of the Blood-Red Flower by Johannes Linnankoski
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