How to use "foreboding" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "foreboding" in popular movie and book plots

  • Asya has a sense of foreboding regarding the impending grief.  - The Garden of Desires
  • Phyllis expresses foreboding and the fear that she will never see her beloved mistress again.  - Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction
  • Tatiana has a foreboding of what this might be.  - Smoke (novel)
  • Upon their arrival they find a foreboding house with a mind of its own, and as darkness falls, the house begins to kill the crew one by one.  - House of Bones
  • Linda (Kerin) inherits a retirement home called Montclare, a foreboding but apparently harmless place.  - Next of Kin (1982 film)
  • He must break a lock to access the garden, and he is overcome with a foreboding feeling as he enters.  - The Prince of Mist
  • There abides the Want, the maniac dream-master who can give Leven the gifts he needs against a foreboding army of rants and other foo beings.  - Leven Thumps
  • During the conception, however, a black butterfly flew over the two lovers, a foreboding of ill fate.  - Man from the Deep River
  • These dark moments, as in much of Mishima's writings, tend to bring the reader to a foreboding of impending tragedy.  - Thirst for Love
  • On a mirror is scrawled the foreboding message, "THIS IS THE SECOND TIME".  - Archer's Goon
  • The point at which the mystery is unravelled marks the series' shift from foreboding and uncertainty into open conflict.  - Harry Potter
  • There are frequent references to weather conditions, meteorological phenomena and forecasts that add to the foreboding in the plot.  - Bomber (novel)
  • Both of them awake with the foreboding black rash on their chests the next morning.  - The Oath (Frank E. Peretti novel)
  • Outside the safe boundaries of Village is Forest, a foreboding realm which most of the Villagers fear.  - Messenger (novel)
  • Now, ten years later, he is plagued by visions of a mysterious woman, and a foreboding sense of evil.  - Myth II: Soulblighter
  • They soldier on until they encounter the foreboding Cyclops (Henwood) who recalls how a Union soldier shot out his eye in the Civil War.  - Cannibal! The Musical

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