to foretell or portend fortune or misfortune for someone or something. (Typically with ill or well.) Things do not bode well for the stock market. Things do not bode well for your future at this job.

What does the saying bode well mean?

bode well. : to show or suggest that future developments or events will be good or favorable : to be a sign of good things to come …

Can you not bode well in a sentence?

Somehow, it bodes well for the couture. The results of the opinion poll do not bode well for the Democrats. Things had connected, falling into a new shape - a shape that bode well for the future. Unsurprisingly, refugees often fell into a torpid dependency, which did not bode well for the future.