How to Use omen in a Sentence

omen

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  • This is almost an omen that Noah is bound to be the next Zac!
    — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Sep. 2018
  • One designer would never take a date with a 4 in it because that was a bad omen.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 27 Aug. 2018
  • In what seemed like a good omen, the legendary Al Attles returned to the building.
    — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 7 June 2019
  • The omens are good, and Democrats have reason to hope that 2016 was just an aberration.
    — Dylan Scott, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
  • The aquatic mammal of the title appears as an omen, an apparition, two ships’ names, and carved and painted keepsakes.
    — James Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2019
  • Refinery 29 points out that the branches on this piece of armor are a good omen: The North is strong and resilient but, above all, peaceful.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 May 2019
  • Other rulers before him deployed oracles, omens and even impersonations of gods to awe their subjects into obedience.
    — James Romm, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • The trailer has everything your abuela loves to talk about, including a priest offering grave omens, and a woman wailing in aggrieved Spanglish.
    — Ella Cerón, Teen Vogue, 18 Oct. 2018
  • But, in an omen of what would happen to the entire world, later versions of the iPod had the screen overtake the dial, and the circular scroll became the downward or upward swipe.
    — Nikil Saval, The New Yorker, 2 July 2019
  • The best omen for the Giants was Samardzija walking Tatis to start the first inning and preventing him from scoring despite a steal of second.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 1 July 2019
  • An omen in the unlikely guise of an incident at an open-air market in the old city of Damascus, in February 2011, should have changed his mind.
    — Charles Glass, Harper's magazine, 10 Feb. 2019
  • That is a bad omen for companies and countries that are especially reliant on international dollar liquidity—chiefly banks and emerging markets.
    — Jon Sindreu, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2018
  • That was a bad omen, as the team that has scored first has won all the games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • That was a bad omen, as the team that has scored first has won all games.
    — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Oct. 2021
  • The game started with something of a bad omen for the Spurs.
    — Jeff McDonald, ExpressNews.com, 11 Feb. 2020
  • But the strong speech was a good omen for his 2024 campaign.
    — CNN, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The raven is an omen of good luck to the Koyukon Indians.
    — Philip Caputo, Field & Stream, 22 Nov. 2020
  • And kicking off the year in a good mood sounds like the best omen for what's to come, right?
    — Ysolt Usigan, Woman's Day, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The raid seemed to be a bad omen for a cornerstone of the rap world: the mixtape.
    — Sheldon Pearc, The New Yorker, 30 June 2021
  • That has happened as of late and is a good omen for the Fuel.
    — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 12 Aug. 2020
  • As a small business owner, that’s got to be a good omen.
    — Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2020
  • This time around, the Fed seemed to take the omen seriously.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The wide-leg baby-blue pants feel like both a relic from early-’90s L.A. and an omen from the L.A. of the future.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • Above, the sky is both beacon and omen, as dark clouds dovetail over a low sun.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Aug. 2022
  • That could be a good omen as St. Xavier also won a state title in 2005.
    — Scott Springer, The Enquirer, 6 Nov. 2021
  • Some experts fear this is a dark omen of a fate that could befall Kyiv.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Wage growth has soared, but the good news could be a grim omen, economists said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The black dust that caked Margaret Gordon’s Venetian blinds was the first bad omen.
    — Rachel Swan, SFChronicle.com, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Ask the deck questions, discuss the cards’ omens, or just admire the artwork together.
    — Anne Loreto Cruz, Bon Appétit, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Long ago, shooting stars were commonly thought to be omens, prophecies, or messages from the gods.
    — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024

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