Sentence examples for The portent from inspiring English sources
noun
Something that portends an event about to occur, especially an unfortunate or evil event; an omen.
The single, Never Fade Away, has the portent of a Killers track: portentous sound, portentous vocals, as though to convey the idea that they are talking about Important Stuff.
The president acknowledged the portent of the date.
As in Shakespeare's play and Caesar's life, the portent proved exact.
It's not the length of a phrase, but the portent of ultimate danger.
The whole point of the goofball before Green Wing was that he was asexual, he was the subplot, the light relief, the man from whom the portent and gravity and stress associated with testosterone had been removed.
It was only one murder, yet it convulsed the city and the nation, and it sent shock waves across Europe, for in those times of high anxiety it seemed to fit the portent of impending culture clash.
The cliffhanger, the obscure portent, the withholding of essential information?
The second, and more ominous, change that has produced the portent-mongering lies in the slightly mistier field of consciousness.
The portents are positive.
The portents are unpromising.
