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
• Now, on the verge of the first round of the state playoffs, Crowell’s prophecy has come to pass.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2020
• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• This is mostly due to their unerring pursuit of a song that will unite the world, part of a prophecy made in the very first film.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 28 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Rodgers fell to the Packers late in the first round and set out to fulfill that prophecy over the next 15 years of his Hall of Fame career.
  — Jr Radcliffe, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2020
• 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
• Season 1 was all about averting Armageddon, dangerous prophecies, and the End of the World.
  — Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 24 Oct. 2024
• In 1950s England, milkman John Pollock made a shocking prophecy: his two daughters, who had passed away, would be reborn.
  — Peter White, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024