fill sb with foreboding
Frequency: 5.20.8 per million words
to cause someone to feel a sense of impending trouble
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Examples (10)
- The sudden silence in the corridor filled her with foreboding.
- Dark clouds on the horizon always fill him with foreboding.
- The email’s vague subject line filled me with foreboding all afternoon.
- That eerie creak under the stairs had filled us with foreboding before we even opened the door.
- The doctor’s hesitant pause fills the room with foreboding.
- By dusk, the empty streets were filling the volunteers with foreboding.
- The judge’s expression will fill any defendant with foreboding.
- Rumors of layoffs can fill even seasoned managers with foreboding.
- His casual remark seemed to fill them with foreboding rather than comfort.
- Replaying the voicemail has filled me with foreboding all evening.