portentous
adjective
of the nature of a portent; momentous.
portentously
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a word derived from
portentous.
Example Sentences
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The bell in the Marquis of Granby, once a favourite spot for Conservatives, portentously stopped ringing just before the pandemic shut pubs across the country - and hasn't started back up since.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
There’s the portentously over-the-top narration, and then there’s the rapid-fire dialogue that makes “Gilmore Girls” look graceful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2024
Echoing, even extending, Lincoln’s metaphor, Seward concluded portentously: “It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.”
From New York Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
The decision was reached in Uefa’s Tuesday conference call, a telephonic fixture trailed slightly more portentously than a second-tier Champions League tie.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 18, 2020
I stepped portentously on to the path, a fragment of the original Appalachian Trail from the days when it passed here en route from Mount Oglethorpe to Springer.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
