sense of foreboding

collocation in English

meaningsofsenseandforeboding

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sense
noun
uk
/sens/us
/sens/
an ability to understand, recognize, value, or react to something, especially any of the five physical abilities to see, hear, smell, taste, ...
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foreboding
noun[C or U]
uk
/fɔːˈbəʊ.dɪŋ/us
/fɔːrˈboʊ.dɪŋ/
a feeling that something very bad is going to ...
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(Definition ofsenseandforebodingfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofsense of foreboding

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The authors begin a chapter on ' cultural sensitivity ' by stating that they approached writing the chapter with asenseofforeboding.
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This will create asenseofforebodingamong all employers whenever they have to employ somebody.
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Nobody can fail to feel horror and disgust, and asenseofforebodingfor the future of the human race.
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Who can doubt that over our debate today, as over former debates on this subject, there has been a heavysenseofforeboding?
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That gives me no sense of enjoyment—it gives me a considerablesenseofforeboding.
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It is hard to envisage the world food situation ahead of us without a very deepsenseofforeboding.
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I give these warnings not with a sense of joy but with asenseofforeboding.
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I say that with asenseofforebodingabout what is still to come.
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Leonore tries to soothe her own anxiety andsenseofforeboding.
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As if imprisoned there by his tribe, he began to feel asenseofforeboding.
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Nevertheless, she is overcome with grief and asenseofforebodingat his departure.
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She reflects on the death of the king and her own future with asenseofforeboding.
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Eragon has asenseofforeboding, remembering the prophecy of his epic romance with one of noble birth.
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He creates asenseofforebodingusing a vast horizon and an ominous hanging branch.
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In this case there is the added possibility that the red liquid could be blood, giving it an even more sinistersenseofforeboding.
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Thesenseofforebodingincreases when another even more ghoulish old man suddenly appears.
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A bewitchingsenseofforebodingbuilds as his fingers touch the piano, and as he begins to sing, we are immersed in his darkly lyrical and evocative stories.
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