adverb

• In a way that suggests that something bad is going to happen.

  ‘thunderclouds loomed ominously overhead’

  More example sentences

  • ‘the ominously named Shipwreck Bay’
  • ‘The sky grows dark in every quarter, most ominously.’
  • ‘The bass drum from the opening theme song rumbles ominously.’
  • ‘Another rocket is fired, and the smoke hangs ominously over the square.’
  • ‘Most ominously, citizens would be far removed from their elected representatives.’
  • ‘We were ominously informed that medical personnel would always be on call backstage.’
  • ‘With the clock ticking ominously, they searched his computer and notebooks.’
  • ‘He writes a letter of accusation, ominously hinting at his own impending death.’
  • ‘This is another subject about which the official documents are ominously silent.’
  • ‘Ominously, more and more businesses are going to the wall.’
  • ‘At night, it falls ominously dark.’