BODE in a Sentence
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15 example sentences for BODE, such as:
1. They had not the fierce character boding of immediate hostile intention.
2. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
3. There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.
4. Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.
5. These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
2. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
3. There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.
4. Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.
5. These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
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Meanings and Examples of BODE
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bode
v. foreshadow; indicate by signs; be an omen of; predict
Classic Sentence:
1 There was a brooding oppressiveness in the air that seemed to bode something.
2 Nevertheless, the brother-in-law appeared to bode little danger, seeing that he had taken on board a full cargo, and was now engaged in doing nothing of a more menacing nature than picking his nose.
3 Not Helenus the prophet, though he counselled of many a terror, not boding Celaeno foretold me of this grief.
4 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.
5 Fairest and foremost of all is Turnus, of long and lordly ancestry; but boding signs from heaven, many and terrible, bar the way.
6 Whispers passed along, and a boding uneasiness took possession of every countenance.
7 They had not the fierce character boding of immediate hostile intention.
8 Possibly, if he had observed the brief interchange of signals, he might have thought that it boded no good to him.
9 I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.
10 Her eyes were red-rimmed from tears and, after giving Scarlett a reproving look, she turned her gaze back to Suellen, a fierce angry gaze that boded ill for her.
11 But the bodings of the crew were destined to receive a most plausible confirmation in the fate of one of their number that morning.
12 It domineered above them so, that all their bodings, doubts, misgivings, fears, were fain to hide beneath their souls, and not sprout forth a single spear or leaf.
Example Sentence:
1 The gloomy skies and the odors from the mineral springs seemed to bode evil to those who settled in the area.
2 These recently published figures bode ill/do not bode well for the company's future.
3 The sardonic smile which occasionally broke through his ascetic gloom boded little good for the object of our quest.