Instantly the outside knocking became a violent battering, while keys sounded ominously in the hall doors of the rooms on both sides of me.

Dortmunder, sounding ominously bad-tempered, said, "Kelp, give me those tickets."

"That sounds ominously like the argument they used for the unsinkable Titanic," Pamela said.

Again, the whispered laugh of The Shadow sounded ominously in that black-walled room.

For the rest, it sounded ominously like becoming a novice again.

This sounds ominously like withdrawal from an addictive substance or influence.

This unusual act of insubordination had already troubled him; and these mutinous words now sounded ominously in his ears.

The main courses read like a travel guide to the Middle and Far East and sounded ominously complex.

This sounded ominously like a top alert.

Fear swallowed her breath as the weighty silence that followed sounded ominously.