1 The sky looked ominously dark.

2 Ominously, car sales slumped in August.

3 The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car.

4 The bar seemed ominously quiet.

5 Distant rolls of thunder belch ominously.

6 Then the first snowflakes descended ominously.

7 More ominously, the effort to halt the nuclear spread could also stall.

8 In any case, he added ominously, Moscow expected exit requests to decline in the future.

9 More ominously, in both starts they have knocked Olajuwon from Mount Olympus, making him appear suspiciously mortal.

10 But ominously, there was no hint of an eventual return to the Cabinet.

11 Ominously, however, this confidence-promoting institution is itself undergoing a crisis of confidence.

12 My six-year old daughter has ominously started making paper aeroplanes and dividing them into teams.

13 Snaking ominously up from its subterranean silo, the 330, 000-pound missile nearly breaks the surface.

14 But, ominously, official trade unions, which formerly supported the government, are now throwing in with independent miners.

15 Just as ominously, the Senate leadership seems inclined to attach conditions to the money.

16 When her family contested the will, Agia ominously testified on behalf of Mons from her grave.

17 And most ominously, it often has the effect of crippling the performance of formerly productive work groups.

18 Several othet figures ominously loomed.

19 Mammy shook her head ominously.

20 I went into the kitchen and found him lying ominously still on the floor.

21 The growth of bureaucratic power since 1900, Handlin wrote, had begun ominously to encroach upon the freedom of the individual.

22 David remembers the day the letter arrived, and the ominously quiet discussion which ensued between his parents at Rhydoldog.

23 Every step he took seemed to be resented by the stonework, which creaked and rumbled ominously about him.

24 Labour protest in the cities might pose no immediate security risk but it had gathered pace ominously throughout the 1870s.

25 Everton's record of failing to keep a clean sheet in 15 matches soon looked ominously likely to continue.

26 Grant cuts the engine to listen for clues. Distant rolls of thunder belch ominously.

27 She lay motionless, utterly worn out by her exertions, yet at the same time ominously wide awake.

28 The Conservatives were fairly quiescent, but the Liberals were buzzing ominously with activity.

29 Half way through my vigil, a cloud wandered in front of the sun and the sky turned ominously dark.

30 Ultimately it may compromise the quality of medical care and ominously even result in premature death!

31 The crone lifts her wrinkled finger and drops it ominously on the Death card.

32 It looked ominously like we were about to repeat the earlier scenario.

33 A bright blue star, Rigel illuminates the ominously shaped dust patch known as the Witch Head Nebula, visible as the blue reflection nebula near the lower right corner.

34 More ominously, the stored surplus of food provided a motive for war.

35 The after - affects of this Iron Thunderbolt have an ominously recognizable ring.

36 They add ominously that this risks flirting with Euroscepticism, even nationalism.

37 When a Facebook employee recently mapped social networks among the site's global users, China was rendered as an ominously dark space, among the last unconquered frontiers.

38 Ominously, the Institute is just down the street from where I do my worrying.

39 Never have a pair of quotation marks loomed so ominously.

40 Ominously, builders are selling land for as little as 20 cents on the dollar.

41 There have also been several famous non-people that have rung the bell, including Mickey Mouse, the Pink Panther, Mr. Potato-Head, the Aflac Duck and (perhaps most ominously) Darth Vader.

42 Steam rises ominously as flowing lava hits the sea off the Italian island of Stromboli.

43 If not, McCain said ominously that credit will jeopardizing home sales, individual savings and company payrolls.

44 There are no Tokyo dwellers lurking ominously in their gangs.

45 He spoke ominously of the world facing "a war in Europe and possibly something greater".

46 Ominously, on Tuesday, the authorities closed the port of Natchez, Miss. , about 180 miles (290 km) northwest.