Which preposition to use with ominous
The sounds at sea, ominous of shipwreck, will also occur to the minds of some.
There was something rich and stormy and ominous in the air, and a soft rainy sense of solemn impending change, at once brilliant and mournful; a curious sense of intermingled death and birth, as of withered leaves and dreaming seeds being blown about together on their errands of decay and resurrection by the same breath of the unseen creative spirit.
The sermon furnished material for conversation throughout the remainder of the day, at the mill, and divers conclusions were drawn from it, that were ominous to the preacher's future comfort and security.
In Prussia it is regarded as ominous for a bride to plant myrtle, although in this country it has the reputation of being a lucky plant.
What could there be more ominous than this!
King's eyes were filled with concern; his face was ominous like the face of the world about him.
It lasted for a space of minutes during which neither of them stirred or uttered a syllable, becoming at length ominous as the electric stillness before the storm.
His own attendants seemed to have divined that there was something ominous about the journey, and he was not the kind of man whose servants are devotedly attached to him.