Example Sentences

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He said he had no premonitions that things were about to go haywire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026

His mostly unpublished premonitions were eerily prescient: Among others, he famously intuited the existence of the neutron from prior experiments.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 20, 2023

But his pleas fell on deaf ears, and his premonitions would come true.

From BBC • Sep. 19, 2023

But she also gradually punctures those upbeat vibes with tremulous notes of vulnerability and premonitions of disaster, right around the time her Barbie notices a patch of cellulite and begins having incongruous thoughts of death.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2023

Next to the reality of the nightmares, my premonitions felt like toothless bedtime stories.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx