How to Use soothsayer in a Sentence

soothsayer

noun

• So Nick decides to crack the soothsayer's eggs and create — well, that's what the second act is for.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
• The soothsayer saw a future involving the sea and airplanes.
  — Howard Cohen, Alaska Dispatch News, 10 July 2017
• These soothsayer-magicians would tell a general whether or not to march or to do battle by the formations of the birds on the wing.
  — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
• That’s proof the forecaster is an oracle—and journalists love to look into the future with the help of a soothsayer.
  — Dan Gardner, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
• Schematic soothsayers will emerge from every corner of the football universe trying to get in on the fracas.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• Just as Dumbledore could pull a thought from his ear and drop it in a birdbath to reveal the secrets of the past, these soothsayers pore over sales data of the past year to divine hints of the future.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 29 Jan. 2018
• Nick consults with a soothsayer, who informs him that the future of theatre involves acting, singing, and dancing all at once.
  — courant.com, 30 Apr. 2021
• Fashion soothsayers look to a show's opening (or closing) model to predict a new campaign face.
  — Veronique Hyland, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Jan. 2011
• What brought her fame, however, was her career as a soothsayer, adviser and nurse.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Well, spend much time around the Padres, and the question becomes what the pitchers would do without their guru/sensei/soothsayer and counselor/mentor/teacher/friend.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2018
• The most amazing soothsayers are the ones who see far into the future, their predictions carrying no hint of their time period.
  — Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
• During the third and fourth centuries ad, when the ancient world was shaken to its core and everything was changing, there were so many astrologers, clairvoyants, and soothsayers that the popes took fright.
  — Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
• In the story, a conspiracy of statesmen, worried that Caesar will assume too much power, plot to kill him on the Ides of March, the date a soothsayer warns Caesar to beware.
  — Chris Moody, CNN, 10 June 2017
• Prepping has gone mainstream, its adherents no longer fringe actors but quirky soothsayers of sorts.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
• The insight came via the performance of Gerald Rivers, who assumes the role of an emcee narrator in addition to playing the soothsayer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
• Trump’s onetime soothsayer Steve Bannon is trying to emerge from exile after the president dumped him for his backbiting, leaky ways in the White House.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 July 2018
• The soothsayer saw a future involving the sea and airplanes, The Miami Herald reports.
  — Howard Cohen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2017
• He was not supposed to win that state, because there are a lot of evangelicals there, and evangelicals, our soothsayers told us, did not like Donald Trump.
  — Jeff Sharlet, New Republic, 16 May 2017
• Through the 20th century, a sprawling market of urban soothsayers grew.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
• Imagine how this show would have been received if the controversy had never happened; if it had been unveiled from his perch as high soothsayer of the industry.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• When a local soothsayer says the next big thing in theater will feature people singing, dancing and acting, all at the same time, the siblings pen world’s very first — and wackiest — musical.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2019
• Therein, three decades later, Perot’s words ring like a soothsayer’s cautionary tale of governments enabling the wrong chips.
  — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 11 June 2021
• In the central bit of nonsense, Nick visits a soothsayer (Ross Lehman in hilarious fettle) to try and learn the name of his rival’s biggest hit and then turn that into a musical to catch a new fashion.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• David Simon has always been a kind of soothsayer of interconnected graft: The police are dirty, the journalists are compromised, the slime begins at home.
  — Rachel Syme, New Republic, 8 Sep. 2017
• Raleigh, ruled by her soothsayer daughters, seems to have been expecting these distressed visitors.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• But the reality is those experts are not perfect fortunetellers or soothsayers.
  — Steve Nabity, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
• Salvatore was saving his life, and doing it with a soothsayer’s ability.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
• An intricate design emerges: Doerr’s a soothsayer obsessed with our survival, fearing the worst.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• But as the credit crisis unfolded in 2008, the Harvard Ph.D. won sudden acclaim as a financial soothsayer.
  — Amrith Ramkumar, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2018
• According to the soothsayers at McKinsey, this is not just a fable but our modern workplace reality.
  — Ira Wolfe, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 2 Oct 2024