portent

At times, it seemed Leonard was awaiting a portent or an omen.

Is this a passing phase or a portent of something more serious?

In Moscow, the cynics are the ones opposing the regime while the idealists are the ones still working for it: another bad portent.

As the great commentator, the Ramban, teaches, “everything that happened to the Patriarchs is a portent for the children.”

And the use of reverberating metallic sound effects to imbue every other moment with sinister portent gets tedious after awhile.

It sounds ominously amid the stillness, like the portent of some calamity, horrible and sudden.

Should purchases and rumoured purchases of land prove to be a portent, Dafydd had all to lose and nothing to gain by change.

The silence without was only portent of the storm so soon to burst.

It was because he was a failure in literature that he became a portent in English history.

There was some hidden portent in her tone which Jarvis failed to divine.