Sentence examples for a omen of from inspiring English sources

as a Romney stand-in during debate practice is a omen of where Romney's campaign is headed.

Whether the conflicts he chronicles are a throwback to earlier struggles, an omen of a coming crisis, or the necessary accompaniment of the development of a living faith is, of course, a matter of opinion.

In Chinese culture, a cat coming into a home is an omen of ruin and poverty for its inhabitants.

To see one on a voyage was an omen of shipwreck.

The leaders could not tolerate what seemed like "an omen of a dangerous trend," as Alan Philps puts it in The National.

The appearance in 1669 of the first literary society (dichtgenootschap) was an omen of a decline in Dutch literature lasting through the 18th century.

The Italian duo of Ferrari-Nesta stheted the season together, hopefully an omen of an injury free season for both.

Was the Jets' victory a Colts gift or an omen of things to come?

In 1993, it was the case of 2-year-old James Bulger, abducted and murdered by two 10-year-old boys — an episode that Tony Blair, then in the opposition, called an omen of "moral chaos" under a Conservative government.

Or so everyone thought — until he opened his briefcase and brought down the house with a size 46 scarlet jacket, an omen of the coming deep-water boom.

It's not just a superstition – a bird hitting your car windscreen really is an omen of death.