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adjective

auspicious

auguring favorable circumstances and good luck

In a sentence

Six example sentences with auspicious, each labelled with its topic.

  • Rain on the morning we boarded felt like a bad omen, but the captain called the following wind auspicious.

    Travel

  • Two enterprise contracts signed in the first month is an auspicious opening for a company that had six weeks of runway.

    Startups

  • Roman generals delayed a march until the birds flew in a pattern their priests declared auspicious for the coming campaign.

    History

  • Winning the opener by thirty points was an auspicious start for a coach in her first season.

    Basketball

  • The shares rose eight percent on the first morning, an auspicious debut that the bankers had not dared predict.

    Finance

  • The novel opens on an auspicious morning, sun on the harbour, which every reader knows the author will soon overturn.

    Literature

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