Sentence examples for omens from inspiring English sources
'omens' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is usually used as a plural noun and refers to signs or events that suggest something, usually something bad, is going to happen in the future. For example: "The villagers were worried about the strange omens they had seen in the days leading up to the storm."
verb
Third person singular of omen
If the late withdrawals of vice-captain Tom Rockliff (virus) and clever forward Dayne Zorko (personal reasons) were not enough bad omens for Brisbane, it became crystal clear it wasn't going to be their night when the ball struck Darcy Gardiner flush in the temple in the second minute following an errant kick from team-mate Pearce Hanley.
The pre-opening omens had not been good, with media controversy over the fact that bleak and very recent subject matter – the murders of five women in Ipswich in 2006 by the lorry driver Steve Wright – had been turned into a musical.
Robock is right to raise concerns over who will control any climate-shaping technologies that are proven to work but the omens from James Bond are good.
The omens are not good as far as England are concerned for, although New Zealand have to win this match to draw the series, their enterprise has given them time both to put the game out of England's reach while allowing themselves the necessary overs to complete the job.
That is because he must also try to put together a governing alliance.Here, the omens are not promising.
These were the first suicide-attacks in our history".In this section Secure the Sahara, if you can Bad omens Are the Islamists truly on the ropes?
And the omens are not good.
So far the omens are not promising.
In September a regional bourse opened in Abidjan, and, for all its bureaucracy, is doing well.With such good omens, President Henri Konan Bedié should be confidently looking forward to re-election in two years' time.
Bank privatisation can wait until 2000, says Mr Zeman, even though state-owned banks are the main culprits in the mismanagement of Czech enterprise.But the omens are not all bad.
