"word" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Slowly, he related to Maynard the circumstances of Colonel Baxter's death and his portentous last words.
- The portentous words rolled between them.
- He hissed the portentous words once more, loudly and venomously: Be damned!
- The boyish reediness of the lad's voice gave the portentous words a quality incongruous with the scene.
- It was the first time anyone at Toynton Grange had used that portentous word.
- One trend at motor shows is the diminishment of the press pack, a once weighty tome, filled with glossy photos, glass slides and portentous words.
- With these portentous words he left the saloon bar.
- Afterward, she knew she would wonder why she had not delegated someone to make this ritual appearance and utter portentous words.
- "I don't think I am supposed to write more than nine," he added, echoing Mahler's portentous words of a century ago.
- I laughed at him: his portentous words and idiotic ap-pearance.
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