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11 example sentences for AUGUR, such as:
1. Thenardier augured well from the fact.
2. From the first she had augured ill of Mme.
3. The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.
4. This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
5. The religion of the Gentiles had its beginning in the responses of the oracles and in the prognostics of the augurs and soothsayers.
2. From the first she had augured ill of Mme.
3. The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.
4. This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.
5. The religion of the Gentiles had its beginning in the responses of the oracles and in the prognostics of the augurs and soothsayers.
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Meanings and Examples of AUGUR
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augur
v. predict from an omen
n. (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy
Classic Sentence:
1 Indeed you are mistaken there, sir; I should never augur want of spirit from Captain Benwick's manners.
2 The colonnade above him made him think vaguely of an ancient temple and the ashplant on which he leaned wearily of the curved stick of an augur.
3 Thymbraeus smites massive Osiris with the sword, Mnestheus slays Arcetius, Achates Epulo, Gyas Ufens: Tolumnius the augur himself goes down, he who had hurled the first weapon against the foe.
4 The religion of the Gentiles had its beginning in the responses of the oracles and in the prognostics of the augurs and soothsayers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
5 Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand.
6 From the first she had augured ill of Mme.
7 Few augured the possibility that the encounter could terminate well for the Disinherited Knight, yet his courage and gallantry secured the general good wishes of the spectators.
8 Thenardier augured well from the fact.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
Context Highlight In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
9 At this a sudden sign meets their eyes, mighty in augural presage, as the high event taught thereafter, and in late days boding seers prophesied of the omen.
Example Sentence:
1 The company's sales figures for the first six months augur well for the rest of the year.
2 This augurs well for the future and underlines the truth that music as a universal language is an important resource for ecumenism.