What is "ominously"

Usage examples of "ominously".

The platform tilted down ominously as he shifted his weight, but Alec hauled him quickly to safety on the stairs.

More ominously, the activist Shia Islam preached by the leader of the revolution in Iran, Ayatollah Sayyid Ruhollah Musavi Khomeini, threatened to upset the delicate Sunni-Shia balance in Iraq, and a hostile Iran would threaten Iraqi security in the Gulf.

Two days went by and Beane was ominously silent, but he was with us, sleeping or waking, he was all we were thinking about.

More ominously, Lisa noted a collection of goats and blue bharal sheep gathered in the penned corrals.

Italian-looking man of middle age, the one an ominously transmogrified Orrie Buhr and the other resembling--who?

Drear shadows drooped and thickened above the Pass of Dariel,--that terrific gorge which like a mere thread seems to hang between the toppling frost-bound heights above and the black abysmal depths below,--clouds, fringed ominously with lurid green and white, drifted heavily yet swiftly across the jagged peaks where, looming largely out of the mist, the snow-capped crest of Mount Kazbek rose coldly white against the darkness of the threatening sky.

We looked in mute horror at all those frazzled, frequently pregnant young mums dragging their sobbing brats past another sugar counter, and all those ominously silent, red-faced fathers ready to explode at the first wrong word from their sulking, surly children, and we thought - we are better than that.

Like a series of teeth, the range rose ominously, gouging at the gray scudding clouds.

Meanwhile, the clock was ticking, the hours and days of the chronometer turning, the predicted estimated time of arrival of Shiva and its escort at Summerland getting ominously nearer.

Paul de la Nuit, chaplain and staff automatist, has been writing for weeks now, and which, it is felt ominously, no one up in London quite knows how to decrypt?

He studied the barograph, where the needle was moving ominously downward, and considered the dissolving skies and the mist which rose like a wall beyond the terrace.

I saw Panda shift uneasily on his seat, while Cetewayo scowled even more ominously than before.

The black Pentangle inlaid into the white marble floor loomed up before him ominously.

It resembled a span-long plesiosaurus, afflicted with elephantiasis, and a forked, lolling, tongue extruded from a head that swayed ominously right and left.

A part of me could see that the lights continued to blaze as before, and when I looked at the wheel out of the corner of my eye, in a sidelong glance, I could confirm its continued bright adornment, yet when I looked at it more directly, I saw only an ominously huge, portentously dark Ferris turning ponderously against a black sky, as if it were one of the mill wheels of Heaven-the one that relentlessly grinds out the flour of suffering and cruel misfortune.