Example Sentences

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A glance at the sky turned up only a few wisps or streaks of pale and unforeboding cloud.

From Washington Post • Mar. 11, 2022

Go prophesy at home, thy sons advise: Here thou art sage in vain—I better read the skies Unnumber'd birds glide through the aerial way; Vagrants of air, and unforeboding stray.

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

Thy courage glad,     That once did bear thee on, That brow of thine had lost; the fervor rash Of unforeboding youth thou hadst foregone.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. by Ingelow, Jean