forebode
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
is foreboding
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present progressiveof forebode (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The estate of Wuthering Heights is foreboding and dark, with rocks splintering through the walls, while Linton’s Thrushcross Grange bears a Victorian aesthetic, containing the outside world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2026
As always, the sound is foreboding and sleek, sardonic yet soulful — music for lovers in black-leather-upholstered bullet-train compartments, racing toward ominous destinations.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2023
Targaryen is described as a good-natured man which is foreboding in Martin's fantasy world because "good men to do not necessarily make for great kings."
From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2022
The silence along the Grand Bahama highway, the only major road on the island, is foreboding, punctuated only by the occasional truck driving east.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 7, 2019
While it's fine make the hay— Rain is foreboding.
From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole
