Sentence examples for that portend from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, these are waves that portend trouble.

Everywhere, it seems, there are potholes in the road that portend the end of civilisation.

Is she eating leftovers or reading entrails that portend an approaching catastrophe?

These are developments that portend a radically different environment for the nation's workers.

Does that portend folding chairs aplenty (and perhaps the odd sleeping bag) outside the Royal Court, too?

Trudging through snow under big gray skies that portend a storm, Alex and I visit Pete's grave.

Thomas Newman's score mimics and subverts the soothing music of antidepressant sales pitches, composing lullabies that portend a sleep full of nightmares.

Theories help us sort the signals that portend important changes in the future from the noise that has no strategic meaning.

The world is hotter than it has been in over 100,000 years and species are vanishing at rates that portend mass extinction.

Such studies, when designed, analyzed, and interpreted correctly, can help distinguish genetic from environmental causes that portend increased recurrence of a particular pregnancy complication (eg, recurrence of gestational diabetes) or a perinatal outcome (eg, recurrence of preterm birth or preeclampsia).

Aside from the rich, the electorate is hurting — a pulsing mass of tender nerves, hypersensitive to things that portend pain, reflexively reacting to the thump of even the softest mallet.