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I can think of only one use for the smallest size,' said George portentously.

"The amount now can buy her a ring," he said portentously.

"The horses will come back to us," he said portentously.

It is a little less portentously Gothic than the earlier version.

Her voice lowered portentously with the last several words, but I was the only one who seemed to notice.

Her words seemed to hang portentously in the silence that followed.

Portentously, he got his first job as a theater usher at age 15.

"We must not lose the ground that Destiny has gifted to us," he said portentously.

I have heard a rumour,' said a third Master portentously.

And then, on one portentously dark day in March, came the god-stealer.

"At 36, she died a horrible death, and one that seemed portentously linked to her extraordinary life."

Many said portentously that their debates and votes would be remembered for generations.

Millionaire is portentously heavy, yet run by a man with no gravitas.

Klein looked Meredith straight in the eye and raised his finger portentously.

The lamps across his streets had a portentously elastic swing with them.

"I personally would not look favorably on a casino in my district," he said portentously.

She deepened her voice so that it boomed portentously within the van.

"The penalty must include our Estelle-friend too," he added portentously.

The forest was portentously quiet, as if all animals and birds - even the insects - had gone.

Who is this masked man, speaking so portentously about how "foul and fair" his day has been?

"The choice between these two futures is stark and decisive," he writes portentously.

"I, the sculptor, am the landscape," she once wrote, portentously.

Her last words had been spoken very portentously, and I rewarded them with a dubious shrug.

These words were in such a portentously gloomy tone, they caught my attention even through the lethargy.