Portend is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PORTEND in dictionary:

VERB:
• to serve as an omen of
• be a sign or warning that (something, especially something momentous or calamitous) is likely to happen
• be a sign of
• To indicate (events, misfortunes, etc.) as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs.
• To stretch out before.
• indicate by signs

Words related to PORTEND

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Words that contain PORTEND

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How to use PORTEND in a sentence

• What could this thing portend? I had already convinced myself that if Sir Henry were the subject of a hallucination, I also shared it.
• It is supposed by many to portend an alliance, offensive and defensive, between the King of Central and the Philosopher of Printing-House Square.
• The conflict took place near the Phrygian Dorylaion, and seemed at first to portend dire defeat to the crusaders.
• In the infancy of astronomical science it was regarded by astrologers as a sign to portend the birth of an extraordinary individual.
• All those who beheld this marvel wondered thereat and speculated what it could portend.
• What could it all portend? Of course it was very foolish of the good lady to fret like this because Austin was so different from what she thought he should be.
• What did this portend? There had been a strange look in the eyes of Pancho Lopez.
• This was far too picturesque and vivid a morning to portend well for a shooting-day.
• Owls or ravens appearing on important occasions, portend unlucky events.
• What these two manoeuvres portend, we are all anxiously discussing.
• Yon vultures and kites on our right portend a great danger.
• Note and observe that this doth argue and portend I know not what of the west and occident of my time, and signifieth that the south and meridian of mine age is past.
• What did it portend? Had harm come upon Ethie? And a shadow broke the placid surface of the sweet old face as Aunt Barbara put these questions, first to herself, and then to Mrs.
• So I judged that these mighty terrifications could portend no great ill to one who was the son of the formidable Red Axe of the Wolfsberg.
• Thurid asked Thorgunna what she supposed this marvel might portend.
• This, which at first, seemed to portend much mischief, in the end, proved a fortunate incident.
• And he stood with a fine and great courtesy waiting for my Gouverneur Faulkner to state to him what his visit could portend, as would he have done in his regimental room at Tour.
• It might portend another flank march by Grant, but a mist that had begun to rise after midnight hid much from them.
• What did it portend? In her eagerness to learn something of her father, Pasmore, and the others, Dorothy sprang to her feet and ran towards Lagrange.
• At any rate, when this sound is heard, it never fails to portend the death of a Siem.
• As it was not known what serious happening these large gatherings might portend, the President, at the request of many people, sent troops to disperse the Indians.
• The military display was a beautiful one, and the martial maneuvers of the troops seemed to portend a victorious issue.
• Margaret flushed a moment, and then composed herself with an effort, for whatever issue this unexpected arrival might portend.
• At half-past four everything seemed to portend disaster to the allies and victory to the French.
• But what it could all portend was a problem beyond the power of my imagination or deductive reasoning.

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