How to Use seer in a Sentence

seer

noun

• All the seers and prophets are gone, their knowledge lost to the dust of time.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 21 Mar. 2017
• Tourists and sight-seers are the rare exception instead of the norm.
  — USA Today, 18 Mar. 2020
• The Wordsworthian seer blest cracks her open and reshapes her for the better.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
• None of us is a seer and planning is not about knowing what is going to happen in the future.
  — Forbes, 31 May 2021
• On the seventh day of prayers, Tudo spoke to her cousins through a seer, a woman who served as a conduit between the living and the dead.
  — Carlo Gabuco, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
• So had the tournament officials and the crowds of sight- seers who had apparently come out from the city.
  — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
• Zach Galifianakis pops up as the Happy Medium, a seer who points the way to the missing father.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
• Watermelon and pineapple can take to a hot grill the same way that a piece of steak will, with a blackened seer that takes in the charcoal flavor.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 9 July 2018
• Historians, of course, are not called upon to be seers.
  — Rick Perlstein, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2017
• Legend says it was founded by a blind seer fleeing from burning Troy.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 10 July 2021
• He felt harassed by the taunts of jealous friends back home, taunts transmitted by a marabout, a seer or sorcerer.
  — Julian Baggini, WSJ, 3 May 2022
• One of the main reasons why smoking burgers is so rare is the peristent myth that the patty will remain soft and crumbly without the high-heat seer.
  — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2019
• The Patriots had no business being in this game and nearly won it because of their sideline seer.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
• Faith Ringgold, artist-agitator-seer, can be thanked for that.
  — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
• Like Ernst and his fellow Surrealists, the German sees himself as an artist-seer.
  — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
• The poet was a hero, a seer, a towering figure (Yeats above all), whose themes were history, epic and elegy.
  — The Economist, 14 May 2020
• Yet for me, of all those proffering a seer-stone to secret knowledge today, Q is the most interesting.
  — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
• Chuck discovers that Megan is an associate of a Moab seer, who just happens to be his estranged mother, a real piece of work.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2019
• Brushing aside more sober seers, Mr. D’Aveni says that only companies that dive deeply into 3D printing now have a chance to survive.
  — James R. Hagerty, WSJ, 17 Oct. 2018
• It’s when Nick and Nigel get stuck trying to come up with a story for their musical that the old seer is asked to pluck an as-yet-unwritten Shakespeare winner from the future.
  — David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2022
• Mr. Henry is, depending on your belief in the afterlife, a seer or a charlatan.
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 10 May 2017
• Even Teller, normally a truth-seer, fell for Siegfried & Roy’s illusion of audience safety, at least in the moment.
  — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2022
• Mr Patil came away announcing that the great seer had agreed with him that Lingayatism should be declared its own religion, distinct from Hinduism.
  — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
• The Northman sees Amleth commune with the astral projection of a mystic seer, fight a walking skeleton to claim a special sword, and chat to the disembodied head of an old friend.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Apr. 2022
• Identity becomes a performance of shifting perceptions between the seer and the seen.
  — Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
• This striking combination made Dylan seem like both an age-defying seer and a post-modern shaman.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
• The best leaders are synthesizers, sense-makers, big-picture-seers.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 20 June 2018
• He is considered a prophet, seer and revelator who leads the church - along with two top counselors and members of the Quorum - through divine revelation from God.
  — CBS News, 31 Mar. 2018
• He is considered a prophet, seer and revelator who leads the church — along with two top counselors and members of the Quorum — through divine revelation from God.
  — Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2018
• The animal remains were used in attempts to divine the future by seers who inscribed them with early versions of Chinese characters still used today.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 4 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Aug 2024