How to Use prophetic in a Sentence

prophetic

adjective

• And her meeting Kenneth was prophetic in more ways than one.
  — Leila McNeill, Smithsonian, 27 Oct. 2017
• Ford spoke to a group of school children, and one of them, a girl, asked him a prophetic question.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024
• But these programs at their worst can lull the church into a prophetic slumber.
  — Hamil R. Harris, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2017
• The two boys were in awe of the surroundings on pit road when Busch winked at them and gave a prophetic word.
  — USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
• Even though the momentum had already swung, the moment seemed too prophetic.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• My friend asks: does the American church have the prophetic courage to provide that kind of presence now?
  — charlotteobserver, 5 Sep. 2017
• At pivotal moments, the philosopher argued, voices from the past reach out to us with prophetic force, escaping oblivion as a result.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
• Talabani’s prediction to the New Yorker a decade ago is now prophetic.
  — Krishnadev Calamur, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• The words seem prophetic after the dismal product the NFL rendered in Week 1.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• But these early letters reveal something the journals don’t: a flicker of uncertainty about Hughes that now seems prophetic.
  — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2017
• Heading into his senior year at DeMatha this fall, the 17-year-old Laurel resident proved prophetic.
  — Glenn Graham, baltimoresun.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• One of them, eight-decade-old French retailer Monoprix, took issue with Amazon’s techno-prophetic rhetoric — and responded with humor.
  — Ángel González, The Seattle Times, 5 July 2017
• Cher’s comments proved to be prophetic in the months to come.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Mar. 2021
• More to the point, Mann and Ornstein have proved prophetic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
• On the eve of the game, Grimm spoke seven words that couldn’t have been more prophetic.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• Compare this to the haftorah, the prophetic portion read this week.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 18 June 2018
• But as time went on, and more people joined, the Williams view came to look prophetic.
  — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The Matrix just looks more and more wildly prophetic by the day.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• The show's early years look prophetic now in many ways.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• Yet prophetic utterance was not the tenor of the book or what McHarg had in mind.
  — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
• More quasi-prophetic dreams followed—about 20 of them in all.
  — Nicholson Baker, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
• One of the most prophetic words that have ever been uttered to me in my life were said to me by Kris.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
• Three-and-a-half hours later, those words seemed prophetic.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
• His books were so prophetic about the nature of terror.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2022
• The latter became eerily prophetic of what the Twin Cities faced in 2020.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 9 June 2021
• That was the most prophetic show of the early 21st century.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• But as a new study makes clear, the warnings have proved darkly prophetic.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• The legend perhaps began to feel prophetic as Ukraine slowly turned the tide of the war.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• One thing has remained the same, making Cronin feel a bit prophetic.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
• In the meantime, the Browns are hoping that Mayfield’s words are prophetic, and that the time is now for Landry and Beckham.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 29 June 2021

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024