How to Use clairvoyant in a Sentence

clairvoyant

adjective

• To hear the book was finished in May 2020 feels almost clairvoyant.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Sep. 2021
• Or since the birth of the world's most famous – the world's only famous? – Christian clairvoyant.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• Tuesday, however, was worthy of the award, so maybe the CHL was clairvoyant.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, OregonLive.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• His most recent effort was prescient and clairvoyant and deserved to be in the Palm Readers Hall of Fame.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Spiegel also noted that Märtha Louise claimed to be a clairvoyant herself.
  — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2019
• But while Davis’ warnings proved almost clairvoyant, the fund has yet to hit the jackpot due to freakish circumstances in the debt market.
  — Maggie McGrath, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2023
• The leader of a band of desert mercenaries is hired to kill a ruthless despot and his clairvoyant sorceress.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• That thinking seemed clairvoyant after Murray was injured during the warm-up before the first game of the playoffs.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 Apr. 2017
• At the center is Lin Shaye's Elise Rainier, a clairvoyant demonologist.
  — Tom Philip, GQ, 5 Sep. 2017
• Polls aren’t clairvoyant—especially if an election is close, which was the case in many of the recent surprises.
  — Marcus Woo, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2019
• While not everything in that column turned out to be prescient (no one is clairvoyant), there were nuggets that some readers hopefully took to heart.
  — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• The Aston is a steady and calm interstate cruiser, with a smooth ride and a steering system that imparts a clairvoyant sense of straight ahead through its nicely contoured wheel.
  — Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 25 Nov. 2022
• Talking on the phone hours later, Abrams at times sounds overwhelmed by the news, even when others (including that clairvoyant fan in Denver) could have seen this coming.
  — Waiss Aramesh, Rolling Stone, 11 Nov. 2023
• From clairvoyant camels to mystic elephants and cryptic rats, a range of animals -- big and small -- have tried their paws, hooves and tentacles at predicting the score line.
  — Emma Ogao, ABC News, 26 Nov. 2022
• At the time, many people in the business world considered Byrne to be an almost clairvoyant entrepreneur.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020
• The team has the authority to make its arrests based on the visions of three clairvoyant individuals who can see into the future.
  — Wired, 10 Sep. 2019
• The sellout crowd at the American Airlines Center proved clairvoyant.
  — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2022
• The downgrade made then-Chinese premier, Wen Jiabao, seem clairvoyant.
  — William Pesek, Forbes, 31 May 2021
• Macintyre is a spirit worker — a clairvoyant medium, to be exact — and does her tarot readings out of a modern, cozy home office.
  — Brian Contreras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2021
• Gardiner has made space, too, for other lovely turns: Matthew Lamb is a delight as the Little Boy, an upper-crust kid with a common touch and a weird clairvoyant inkling of impending war.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• There are nights when Green seems not just perceptive, but clairvoyant—working in advance of developments that have yet to occur.
  — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Turns out surprising a woman with clairvoyant powers is no easy task, even for a sixth-generation shaman.
  — Jamie Rosen, Town & Country, 2 Oct. 2022
• First introduced in Spider-Man comics in the 1980s, Madame Web is a blind clairvoyant woman who lived in a complex life-support system resembling a spider web.
  — Kevin Slane, BostonGlobe.com, 19 July 2022
• In 2005, Stenner offered a prediction that seems clairvoyant now.
  — Maria Konnikova, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2016
• Frankie's in trouble with the mob boss of Chicago's western suburbs, where most of the action takes place, and they're all being tracked by a government agent who had worked with their clairvoyant mother decades earlier.
  — Gary K. Wolfe, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2017
• The author would have been on more solid ground to explore the clairvoyant aspect of the search as a manifestation of the grief experienced by Lady Franklin and British society.
  — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2019
• This is why Pisceans are considered the most empathetic, clairvoyant, and creative sign of the zodiac.
  — Jennifer Hussein, Allure, 19 Feb. 2023
• Lorraine is clairvoyant, but their connection runs deeper than that.
  — Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 June 2021
• There was no opportunity here for the non-clairvoyant investor to have profited (except perhaps by shorting the news out of sheer pessimism).
  — George Calhoun, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• So while bats aren't actually clairvoyant, those of them that track insects are highly accurate hunters that rely on more than just visual cues.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 9 May 2024