Sentence examples for a more ominous application from inspiring English sources

And the sound of a more ominous application of gunpowder was frequently in the air: during Cai's childhood, China heavily shelled Kinmen island, then known as Quemoy, only a mile and a half offshore from Quanzhou but part of Taiwan.

But a more ominous deadline looms this week.

But Tootie unknowingly sounds a more ominous note.

Privacy advocates prefer a more ominous name -- Web bugs.

("The silent majority" was a more ominous coinage, but that was Buchanan's).

A more ominous finding was that each year, the peak level was a little higher than the year before.

This is when personal discrimination fades into the fog of a more ominous and amorphous structural discrimination.

A more ominous possibility is that the money was siphoned out of the company — i.e. embezzled.

But this sudden move, scheduled while most of the West is on holiday, has a more ominous intent.

Later, on a more ominous journey, Llewyn finds himself driving back from Chicago, with the nighttime road unspooling before him.

But a little while later a more ominous side of Laurie's role began to appear.