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Ominous in sentence

220 examples of Ominous in a sentence

Now, dead zone is a quite ominous word if you're a fish or a crab.
Quite ominous.
He was, according to Brian the Scientologist, making up for lost time, which I know sounds ominous, but isn't necessarily ominous.
I've heard other people say quite the opposite, that this is yet another tier of the middle class that's having the thing they can do taken away from them by a new technology and that this is actually something ominous, something that we should worry about.
They can grow so big, blocking all daylight, making it very dark and ominous standing under them.
It's not such an ominous thing.
That said something really ominous about the future of bears, but it also said something very unsettling about who we'd become, if the survival of even an animal like that was up to us now.
Ominous music playing in the background, beads of sweat pouring down the surgeon's face.
My right knee was swollen up, and you could hear that ominous crunch of bone against bone.
Now, the fourth one is the most ominous, and that is that their numbers decline precipitously, precipitously, tenfold, fiftyfold, as you age.
And we walked three valleys beyond, and the third valley, there was something quite mysterious and ominous, a discomfort I felt.
If there is hope to summon in this ominous hour, it is this.
And then there's the orbit coined "the graveyard," the ominous junk or disposal orbits, where some satellites are intentionally placed at the end of their life so that they're out of the way of common operational orbits.
"Beat." is our project exploring the ominous silence surrounding domestic violence.
Sounded very ominous when he took me nearby to the lake, conveniently called Lake Lyndon Baines Johnson.
As the stranger engages the two companions in a philosophical debate and makes ominous predictions about their fates, the reader is suddenly transported to 1st century Jerusalem.
Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn.
They sound ominous, but actually, they're not bad at all.
“Abandon all hope, ye who enter here… ” Inscribed above the Gate of Hell, these ominous words warn dark tidings for Dante as he begins his descent into inferno.
This is a tumor: dark, gray, ominous mass growing inside a brain.
This was around the time that I started filling out physically, and I was filling out a lot more than a lot of the other girls, and frankly, the whole idea that my astrological sign was a scale just seemed ominous and depressing.
And if the title "Searching for Armillaria Death Rings," sounds ominous, it is.
No more ominous castles with eerie cobwebs and dark vaults, but confused doctors and clumsy assistants that provoke laughs instead of frights.
It is an ominous sign of what's to come: a good 144 minutes more of pretty much the same.
When I first saw the previews, they were dark and ominous, and Arnold's name wasn't even mentioned.
The cinematographer offers us several shots of the ominous shadow of the two bombs, which might be striking if it didn't look like they were cardboard cutouts instead of bombs, the fake atomic fire really does look fake-and why use it when the stock footage on hand is so genuinely stunning and realistic--, and the pervasive brown tone doesn't seem to be thematically appropriate.
Despite an ominous welcome from the forest ranger (Jackson Bostwick) the kids troop up to the mountain any way.
During a cheesy opening speech, actor Lon Chaney tries to convince us that the jungle is an ominous place and hiding many mysteries, but actually there's no real mystery in the plot.
But some roles are unrealistic, i.e. the ominous (rather than fatherly) Mission President, etc.
The horror and constant sensation of menace doesn't mainly come from the demented maniacs with their machetes, but from the genuinely ominous and isolated Oregon forests where this movie was shot.
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