What is "premonitions"

Usage examples of "premonitions".

Since the beginning of adolescence, when he had begun to be aware of his premonitions, he thought that death would be announced with a definite, unequiv­ocal, irrevocable signal, but there were only a few hours left before he would die and the signal had not come.

On occasion they were so natural that he identified them as premonitions only after they had been fulfilled.

Alone, abandoned by his premonitions, fleeing the chill that was to accompany him until death, he sought a last refuge in Macondo in the warmth of his oldest memories.

Yet that very period, filled though it was with premonitions of doom, was marked by some very fine intellectual achievements, including the beginnings of a science of music of which we are the grateful heirs.

As I see it, a reader who had really taken the entire letter seriously would have had to conclude that this was no matter of an eccentric's announcing his premonitions and trying to preach to his colleagues, but rather that this man was in deadly earnest about his ideas and his distress, that he was ready to throw up his office, his dignity, his past, and begin from the beginning in the most modest of places.

If you are having premonitions or dire forebodings, keep the damned things to yourself, curse it!

Joel grew increasingly paranoid and began having intense premonitions about getting caught.

He knew that under normal circumstances his mother would never go in the trunk, but because of his premonitions he started thinking she’d probably get a flat tire or be struck from behind by another motorist.

He hesitated, gripped by one of those illogical premonitions - or maybe it wasn't so illogical, under the circumstances.