How to Use augury in a Sentence

augury

noun
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  • There are three strands to the 2020 augury this offers.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • That makes the state look like an augury of the political year ahead.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • Well, how about an augury of death to top things off: the image of its star, Jennifer Lawrence, burning in flames.
    — Laura Beck, Cosmopolitan, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury.
    — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019
  • First sale of the day,’’ said Guna brightly; in India, a day’s first sale is often taken as a bright augury.
    — Guy Trebay, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Feb. 2016
  • June served as an augury for the city, with the 21st hottest average June temperature on record.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Set in 2019, the play possesses the unsettling chill of a plausible augury.
    — The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • The sufferings of children are probably a damned good augury for our problems as a culture.
    — Tom Chiarella, Esquire, 18 July 2008
  • That augury led him, a year later, to end all legal sanctions on the public profession of Christianity.
    — George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • These developments—and the company’s prodigious burn rate, an estimated $8,000 per minute—have brought out the three-eyed ravens squawking auguries of doom.
    — Dan Neil, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Tesla’s trillion-plus valuation amounts to an augury by investors that EVs will turn out to be a bonanza for Tesla and Tesla alone.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The horrific aftermath of Hurricane Maria might almost be considered an augury of what that would look like, every day.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The scene makes for a gruesome tableau, especially because of its intimacy (death often comes in close-up here), and because of the blood that splatters across Dominika, an augury of the lurid, messy violence to come.
    — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2018
  • For Petrobras, the explanation is that its share price had already sunk before the car-wash affair began in earnest, reflecting cost overruns that were an augury of the epic mismanagement that the scandal revealed.
    — The Economist, 28 Mar. 2018
  • An unexpected blast of solar radiation damages the ship, stirs the crew from their hypersleep, and results in the death of the Covenant’s erstwhile captain inside his malfunctioning sleep pod, an unheeded augury of things to come.
    — Sam Adams, Slate Magazine, 11 May 2017
  • This speculative novel depicts a society in which citizens live and die by the auguries of predictive algorithms developed by a mega-corporation called Beetle.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Further, their closure should not necessarily be read as an augury of continuing franchise attrition.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2021
  • His use of color was as well known among painters as his mercurial and erratic personality, and scholars, including Wolanin, increasingly see his late work as a major augury of abstraction expressionism.
    — Stephan Salisbury, Philly.com, 5 June 2018

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