Wondering how to use Premonition in a sentence? Below are 10+ example sentences from authentic English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as foreboding or boding.
Premonition meaning
- A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future.
- A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
Synonyms of Premonition
Using Premonition
- The main meaning on this page is: A clairvoyant or clairaudient experience, such as a dream, which resonates with some event in the future. | A strong intuition that something is about to happen (usually something negative, but not exclusively).
- Useful related words include: foreboding, presentiment, boding, apprehension.
- In the example corpus, premonition often appears in combinations such as: premonition of, had premonition, premonition that.
Context around Premonition
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 15 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 2 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Premonition
- In this selection, "premonition" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, apparent, horrific, deadly, indicating, leading and wasn stand out and add context to how "premonition" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a horrific premonition of his and an apparent premonition which perry. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "premonition" sits close to words such as abadi, acidification and acker, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with premonition
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He said he had a premonition about his brother. (9 words)
The amber helped Maggie see more of the premonition about Jordan. (11 words)
You see, the gift of premonition wasn’t exactly a blessing for Bruno. (13 words)
The story was important to her in the sense of it being a premonition: “Well, first thing that made me feel it was important was that I had this intuition that something horrible is going to happen in South Africa and you know, indeed, it happened. (46 words)
The tightening jeans and oddly fitting t-shirts which were making me look like the old uncles who hang out in Goa nightclubs had been more than the premonition that anybody deserves but the man in the mirror metaphor wasn’t at all lost on me. (46 words)
Clooney explained that Amal came to visit his famed Lake Como home with a mutual friend in 2013 while en route to Cannes; however, it was his agent who seemed to have a premonition about what this chance meeting would become. (41 words)
Or was it a Final Destination type premonition and he thought he was going to crash and die so he needed to get off the aircraft after it took off? (30 words)
What is Bloom, who has sporadically lost his own plot, doing in these endlessly mushrooming ancillary stories other than as a premonition of old age? (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
Dylan's opening scene nightmare in turns out to be a premonition, indicating that he may possess some level of foresight and adding to the fan theory that The Black Phone and Sinister exist in the same universe.
I didn't know her well but I had this premonition I felt compelled to share.
The life-altering event in happened because a terrifying Choujin called "The Mother" had a premonition that a Beast Choujin who received her powers would be able to stop a calamity that she had also foreseen.
Wednesday herself has the power of premonition, leading to a murder that she sets out to solve.
You see, the gift of premonition wasn’t exactly a blessing for Bruno.
According to her, the two had recently spoken, without premonition of the impending tragedy.
Being a gifted Scorpio, with your premonition powers you've got a pretty good idea about what lies ahead.
She also spoke of an apparent "premonition" which Perry seemed to have ahead of his own death.
The winner’s partner said they had a premonition a month before that they would get a new car and house.
And, oh yeah, Morph also has a horrific premonition of his impending death.
Obviously a ton of Japanese made video games could have been used for this Hot Topic, but Deadly Premonition on the Xbox 360 is one I always go back too now and again.
Or was it a Final Destination type premonition and he thought he was going to crash and die so he needed to get off the aircraft after it took off?
The story was important to her in the sense of it being a premonition: “Well, first thing that made me feel it was important was that I had this intuition that something horrible is going to happen in South Africa and you know, indeed, it happened.
With Covid-19 cases rising, his work could almost be seen as “a premonition,” he acknowledged.
Re: Seinfeld Sightings and Walk-Up Music: While We’re WaitingI had a premonition yesterday that this was going to happen.
The amber helped Maggie see more of the premonition about Jordan.
The tightening jeans and oddly fitting t-shirts which were making me look like the old uncles who hang out in Goa nightclubs had been more than the premonition that anybody deserves but the man in the mirror metaphor wasn’t at all lost on me.
Clooney explained that Amal came to visit his famed Lake Como home with a mutual friend in 2013 while en route to Cannes; however, it was his agent who seemed to have a premonition about what this chance meeting would become.
He said he had a premonition about his brother.
What is Bloom, who has sporadically lost his own plot, doing in these endlessly mushrooming ancillary stories other than as a premonition of old age?
Common combinations with premonition
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- premonition of 7×
- had premonition 5×
- premonition that 5×
- as premonition 3×
- premonition about 3×
- of premonition 2×
- premonition and 2×
- the premonition 2×