how do you use portentous in a sentence?

Answer 1

Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity. - Herman Melville.
The present aspect of society is portentous of great change. - Edward Bellamy.

Answer 2

por‧ten‧tous  Spelled Pronunciation[pawr-ten-tuhs, pohr-]

–adjective 1. of the nature of a portent; momentous.
2. ominously significant or indicative: "a portentous defeat."
3. marvelous; amazing; prodigious.

The republicans suffered a portentous defeat in the recent elections.

After a silence that seemed to last forever, the infant finally took a breath and let out a portentous cry.

The child played a portentously complicated piece on the violin after only a few weeks of lessons.

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Answer 3

por·ten·tous (pôr-tĕn'təs, pōr-)
adj.
Of the nature of or constituting a portent; foreboding: “The present aspect of society is portentous of great change”
Full of unspecifiable significance; exciting wonder and awe: “Such a portentous and mysterious monster roused all my curiosity”
Marked by pompousness; pretentiously weighty.

Answer 4

This victory is without doubt a very special and portentous gift of the gods, she said, "for I believe that there now stands before you the one leader who is the single most qualified to lead us to the peace we long for."
-- Seth Mydans, "Wounded Sri Lankan Sees 'Gift of Gods' in Re-election.", New York Times, December 23, 1999


portentous \por-TEN-tus\, adjective:
1. Foreboding; foreshadowing, especially foreshadowing ill; ominous.
2. Marvelous; prodigious; wonderful; as, a beast of portentous size.
3. Pompous

Answer 5

Finding the penny on the ground proved to be a portentous event as the truck driver won the lottery later that same day.

Answer 6

I am portentous

Answer 7

"A guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein is portentous of an increase in violence in Iraq."