portend
verb (used with object)
to indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does.
will portend
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future tenseof portend.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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“If it goes well, it will portend a bigger job for him in the White House.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 13, 2016
Hopefully, the new dialogue with the United States, both through speaking with President Obama directly and the nuclear deal with sanctions lifted, will portend a new era for our nations.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
And I am now able to announce the top ten omens which will portend the coming of the Great Crash.
From Forbes ● Aug. 5, 2014
Whether Mr. de Blasio’s tightly controlled release of the news of a family issue will portend how he makes uncomfortable announcements during his tenure is yet to be seen.
From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2013
"Methought a river ran Through the whole house, that it roared violently, rushed over the benches, brake the feet of yon brothers twain; Nothing the water spared; Something that will portend."
From Algonquin Legends of New England by Charles Godfrey Leland
