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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a hint of foreboding" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a subtle feeling or sense of impending danger or misfortune.
Example: "As she walked through the abandoned house, she felt a hint of foreboding in the air, as if something was watching her."
Alternatives: "a sense of unease" or "a touch of dread."
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The local prefect had, with more than a hint of foreboding, predicted a "dark day" as his pretty city battened down the hatches.
Among the press corps, too, there was an infantilizing touch, and a hint of foreboding, in all the good will — as if, by wanting so much for Fuld to succeed, we were signalling that we no longer expected it.
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Rasberry worried that, if they wound up locked out of NASA for three or four weeks, the agency was "going to have a mess out there". He said it without any hint of foreboding, or even much interest.
But with their atmosphere of utopian innocence and no hint of foreboding for the neighborhood's future fall, the images seem naïve when viewed with contemporary eyes.
There seemed - subliminally, at least - to be a hint of national stereotyping or even a distinct whiff of racism about all the foreboding.
It's only natural that he feel a touch of foreboding in this situation.
Without a hint of irony.
Not even a hint of a frost.
A hint of horseradish?
A hint of louche.
A hint of mortality can be invigorating.
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