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[ adverb ] in an ominous manner

Examples

"the sun darkened ominously"

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

As the play unfolds , however , the audience is subtly brought into the grip of an awful evil which grows with ominously gathering power and soon engulfs the community .

(James Thurber, "The Future, If Any, of Comedy,"...)

`` Do you remember the woman in the French_Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously ?

Related terms

baleful baleful

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