Use of portentous in Sentences. 22 Examples

The examples include portentous at the start of sentence, portentous at the end of sentence and portentous in the middle of sentence

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portentous at the start of sentence


  1. Portentous choices were forced on him by the dozen.

portentous at the end of sentence


  1. Its consequences were historically portentous.
  2. Sunderland won 2-1; perhaps he will think it portentous.
  3. In social politics, too, the city's contribution to 20th century thought and culture was no less portentous.
  4. Following the magically hushed orchestral entrance, the fateful tread of the tutti main theme is powerfully portentous.

portentous in the middle of sentence


  1. The present aspect of society is portentous of great change.
  2. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.
  3. Recent developments are as portentous as the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
  4. The split reflected a portentous difference of approach within the Party.
  5. Toad was quite alarmed at this very serious and portentous style of greeting.
  6. There was nothing portentous or solemn about him. He was bubbling with humour.
  7. The report contains numerous portentous references to a future environmental calamity.
  8. The problem with the book is that it sometimes descends into portentous philosophizing.
  9. The captured instant often takes on meanings far more portentous than the actual event.
  10. Last week Karl-Marx Allee was again treated to the sounds of portentous rhetoric and polite laughter.
  11. Hence the portentous, and even fatuous slogan which towered each year in brightest blue above the rostrum.
  12. Such alarms reflected the Alsops' tendency to cloak their analyses in portentous terms of dread and dismay.
  13. Answer: Workshop worker can hide below car, machine tool and loftier equipment, not portentous fluster runs.
  14. Neither the Realists nor the photographers were unaware of the significance of such a portentous conjunction.
  15. Strikes occurred, but none as portentous as the strike in the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk that began on August 14, 1980.
  16. That Grunwald had a good seat for all this is obviated by his talent for the portentous and gift for the unremarkable.
  17. The altered states, the plangent electronic keyboards, and her use of Biblical text all conspire to create a portentous sound.

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