Sentences with ominous
om·i·nous
O o - There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.
- An ominous bank of dark clouds.
- There is a sense that the Bullants can test the Roosters, despite North Ballarat's ominous preliminary final form.
- So certain is the Victorian branch of the Australian Skeptics that there is no ominous link with the devil's number.
- Some of these events were immediately ominous, while others only later revealed themselves as such.
- Containing Morris, with 11 tries this season, is looming an ominous challenge for the Kiwis.
- They go into the next month with key forward Jarrad Waite back in the side and showing ominous form.
- At first this seems to be establishing a slightly ominous vision of the suburbs, before it morphs into something dark and vengeful.
- Ominous implies a threatening character but does not necessarily connote a disastrous outcome [the request was met by an ominous silence]; portentous literally implies a foreshadowing, especially of evil, but is now more often used of that which arouses awe or amazement because of its prodigious or marvelous character [a portentous event]; fateful may imply a fatal character or control by fate, but is now usually applied to that which is of momentous or decisive significance [a fateful truce conference]; foreboding implies a portent or presentiment of something evil or harmful [a foreboding anxiety]