forebode
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict; be an omen of; indicate beforehand; portend.
were foreboding
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past progressiveof forebode.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I didn't yet have any friends in my new hometown, the hills of which were foreboding after the flatlands of Suffolk.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 2010
It was not so much the German advances, although they were great enough; nor the Russian retreats, although they were foreboding enough.
From Time Magazine Archive
All minds were uneasy, most were foreboding, many of the people used threatening language.
From Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas père
