presentiment

How To Use presentiment In A Sentence

• But there was the tiniest presentiment of disaster.
• The term presentiment suggests a sense of foreboding, a vague feeling of danger, an intuitive hunch that something not quite right is about to unfold. ENTANGLED MINDS
• I had a presentiment that he represented a danger to me.
• For every person who, warned by a presentiment of catastrophe, turned back at the last minute from boarding a plane that was shortly to crash, thousands (by now) did not.
• He hoped that we could meet some other time, but I had a presentiment that a future occasion may not be possible in this world.
• The image is a fearful intimation of tragedy, a presentiment of a century of spiritual crisis.
• I don't know how it is, I was engaged in an affair of this nature once before, and never cared a pin about the matter; but somehow I have got what they call a presentiment that harm will come of to-morrow's business. Frank Fairlegh Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil
• I have a presentimental assurance of finding one another again before long. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• She thought, somehow, it was a mysterious and presentimental bell. Vanity Fair
• Pip leaves the room, though returns a few minutes later on some odd presentiment.