The success of Lankenau's team sends one ominous message to the diet industry.

The ominous message: Conform to their dictates or be damned.

She wouldn't mention the clipping and its ominous message.

More ominous messages finally sent him in a huff to Rome.

The style, the one-word ominous message, was familiar enough.

The result of my husband's efforts was the ominous message from the computer, "Sector not found."

Another ominous message described the clinic attack as a "taste of Juárez."

That is an intensely more serious, and ominous, message than was delivered by Warwick's previous campaigns.

Taken together, they were an ominous message for the nation's first free election.

And for once, theirs was a tale that did not carry an ominous message about the dominance of television.