inauspicious

How To Use inauspicious In A Sentence

• To say she was superstitious was an understatement - she would book every single Friday 13 th off work, and any day that looked inauspicious on her horoscope.
• Because of what some pandits have been saying - that the year 2000 is inauspicious for marriages as it has three ‘shunya’ in its number.
• But, for many, sadly all snowdrops are to be shunned; like other white flowers, they are often considered inauspicious.
• I suppose I should have expected little more of the day after such an inauspicious start.
• Shakespeare coined the word "inauspicious," riffing on the Latin auspicium, the art of telling the future by observing the flights of birds: "And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars. The Nation: Top Stories
• Hinrich began the season inauspiciously, when he spent the first five games on the injured list because of a viral illness.
• It was evident that they did not like the outlook of a voyage under such a captain and begun so inauspiciously. Chapter 3
• The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence. At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line
• Despite these inauspicious circumstances, it soon became clear that the two shared artistic and personal passions.
• A waterway is called inauspiciously a ‘drain’, but was clear and full of pondweed.