How to Use prophecy in a Sentence

prophecy

noun
  • She has the gift of prophecy.
  • The prophecies of the author have all come true.
  • The blade bears the prophecy of the prince promised in the Song of Ice and Fire.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The Children of the Dragon have risen to the call of prophecy and march to the aid of the Light.
    Milan Polk, Men's Health, 9 Sep. 2023
  • No, the four have come with a prophecy of doom on their breath.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Well, the new year is about to put Regan’s prophecy to the test.
    Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The first homemade piece to be hung up was a bit of a prophecy.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Its name is a riff on the biblical prophecy of the day the world will end.
    Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Is there any truth to the prophecy of the Dragon Reborn?
    Randall Colburn, EW.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • For the stars to become prophecy, then veil, then dust.
    Susana Plotts-Pineda, The New York Review of Books, 12 Sep. 2024
  • New Yorkers will have to wait and see if that prophecy comes to pass.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Against this backdrop, Jerusalem felt to me less like a play than a prophecy.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • The film’s title turned out to have a little bit of prophecy.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 25 May 2021
  • The prophecy, aided by swirling winds, came to life on Thursday around the grounds.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Bickle said Reed had time-stamped the prophecy on his phone.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 15 May 2024
  • The movie opens with a Biblical quote: a scourging prophecy, from the book of Nahum.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • Which is to say, that doom prophecy has been fulfilled.
    Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 12 July 2024
  • A mere six years later, his prophecy came true in earnest.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 3 June 2022
  • By the mid-1990s LaHaye had sold millions of books on prophecy and the Christian life.
    Matthew Avery Sutton, The New Republic, 14 Jan. 2021
  • There was this sense that this idea of prophecy was very real to him and not something odd.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
  • Before a single frame was shot, the film was foretold as a kind of prophecy.
    Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • The prophecy foretold online, of course, did not come true.
    Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The crowds would hail him as the king to come, sent by God to deliver them in fulfillment of prophecy.
    Bart D. Ehrman, CNN, 9 Apr. 2023
  • And of course, there’s the self fulfilling prophecy aspect.
    Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Was there a similar prophecy in last year's No Time to Die?
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Branwen Throughout the world, ravens have been a symbol of prophecy and the spirit world.
    Anna Moeslein, Parents, 22 July 2024
  • Denzel told me about somebody in his life who made a prophecy about him.
    Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
  • But in that present prophecy, that would have meant that somehow Hawkman would have died.
    Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2022
  • To Senna, such prophecies rang just as false as the old prejudices.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Megan and her pumpkin hit our Instagram feeds on October 1, just as the prophecy foretold.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 2 Oct. 2024

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