How to Use augury in a Sentence

augury

noun
  • That makes the state look like an augury of the political year ahead.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • With this new investor, the augury for the cigar industry is good.
    — Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Now science may have found an answer, in the form of molecular augury.
    — Michele Cohen Marill, Wired, 19 Dec. 2019
  • The rule of thumb is that if a party sees a mass exodus of its members in Congress, that’s a bad augury.
    — Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The sufferings of children are probably a damned good augury for our problems as a culture.
    — Tom Chiarella, Esquire, 18 July 2008
  • June served as an augury for the city, with the 21st hottest average June temperature on record.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 2 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • Dream books offered augury, poetry, and purpose—a kind of secular scripture for the numbers game.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
  • Her first food was fish skin, blackened and reeking of the sea—augury foreshadowing her fearlessness, her love of swimming, her appetites.
    — Aria Beth Sloss, Bon Appétit, 22 Mar. 2022
  • But the most promising augury for season two is that Widow’s Bay is old-school monster-of-the-week episodic television.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 17 June 2026
  • That augury led him, a year later, to end all legal sanctions on the public profession of Christianity.
    — George Weigel, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Set in 2019, the play possesses the unsettling chill of a plausible augury.
    — The New Yorker, 5 June 2017
  • 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
  • Further, their closure should not necessarily be read as an augury of continuing franchise attrition.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 10 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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