ominously in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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Thunderclouds were forming ominously and the cars were returned to the pits to change to wet tyres.
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The same room is the location of a large ebony clock that ominously clangs at each hour, upon which everyone stops talking or dancing and the orchestra stops playing.
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The elderly couple is seen leaving in a blacked-out limousine, smiling ominously at each other and staring ahead.
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Very ominously, he pulls out a roll of measuring tape.
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He marauded forward ominously on many occasions and will be happy to claim the assist for the game's final goal.
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They dance meaningfully on the listener's face, too - or remain ominously impassive, disinterested, disagreeable.
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Ominously, the childish voices became more and more tragic, and died out in a whimper.
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Ominously, however, the walk-out is just part of a potential wave of rail strikes across the country that could spell a summer of turmoil.
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He knocks on the door and a female figure descends slowly in shadow; the door creaks ominously.
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He picks apart a single sandwich before becoming distracted by an ominously flickering light in the nearby bathroom.
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