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
With supple hams and an ill-boding look, I vowed to do it.
From The Noble Spanish Soldier by Dekker, Thomas
The solitude of the night was interrupted only by the howl of the wolf, the melancholy moan of the ill-boding owl or the shriek of the frightful panther.
From Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)
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 Linnankoski, Johannes
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