Portent

In what Pios faithful are hoping is a portent of good things to come, No. 1 goaltender Magnus Chrona practiced Tuesday at Magness before the team flew east.

So a comet is just beautiful space dust, not a portent of doom!

Ten years into the game's life, was the second-ever artifact-centered set, and it was a portent for what was to come.

Well, Scotland have never won a Six Nations game at Millennium/Principality Stadium and so they will hope the switch to Parc y Scarlets in Llanelli is good portent for a favourable result to move them up the table.

Is San Jose’s pitiful netminding a portent of impending heartbreak, or could the Sharks be the team that overcomes the odds?

Neville was on thin ice before this game and in desperate need of the warmth of a win but a snowstorm in Ceske Budejovice looked to be an ill portent for much of the match.

Usually it doesn't seem like the best idea to get matching tattoos with your significant other, because it seems to be some kind of dark portent of doom for most relationships.

Cardinal Aldobrandini's election on 30 January 1592, was received as a portent of more balanced and liberal Papal policy in European affairs.

Conservatives were horrified at this event, and held it up as a portent of terrible things to come from the first Democratic president.

In one part of his address to the UN, Baruch said, "Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out our salvation.

It came to be used in Scottish Romanticist literature, and acquired the more general or figurative sense of "portent" or " omen ".

The appearance of a ghost has often been regarded as an omen or portent of death.

The New York Times reviewed the play, saying it is "scarcely more than an extended comedy sketch, lacking the portent and linguistic complexity of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

The story of Vortigern's tower is essentially the same; the underground dragons, one white and one red, represent the Saxons and the British, and their final battle is a portent of things to come.

This was a severe loss, and a portent of further attrition, although the subsequent attempts to round up De Wet were badly handled, and De Wet's forces avoided capture.

United's win against Liverpool in the FA Cup fourth round was a portent for the remainder of the season.