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How to use prophecy in a sentence

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Prophecy means a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration. Example: “French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.”

Examples of prophecy by meaning

nounA prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

  • French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.
  • It is recorded that this remarkable prophecy, now largely fulfilled, was received with much merriment—an undeserved fate.1955 November, G. Machell, “Railway Development at Aylesbury - 1”, in Railway Magazine, pages 741-742
  • Flatterers were indeed beginning to wonder whether Edward I was not a new Arthur in the mould of Merlinic prophecies.2000, R. R. Davies, The First English Empire: Power and Identities in the British Isles, 1093–1343, →ISBN, page 32

More sentences with prophecy

  • The madman obtained a soapbox which he stood on at the corner of Broadway and Wall street, to shout out his prophecy of the end of the world.From the entry soapbox
  • “The Life of a Showgirl” doesn’t quite fulfill this prophecy — or, rather, it delivers only technically.2025 October 16, Mitch Therieau, “Taylor Swift Is Our Biggest Cinematic Universe. But the Magic Is Fading.”, in The New York Times…. From the entry curiously
  • It can be defined as the experimental (techno-)science of self-fulfilling prophecies.[2020, Holger Schulze, Sonic Fiction, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 117. From the entry hyperstition
  • Evangelicals have long been influenced by dispensationalism, a theology that promotes a literal reading of biblical prophecy.2015 December 14, Sarah Pulliam Bailey, “How some evangelicals are challenging a decades-long stance of blanket support for Israel’s…. From the entry dispensationalism
  • In the case of the nocebo, it is negative expectations that become self-fulfilling prophecies.2009 April 25, Stuart Blackman, “Why health warnings can be bad”, in Financial Times. From the entry nocebo
  • The focus has been upon maintenance of conversion within groups when prophecy appears to fail.2003, Bernard Spilka, The Psychology of Religion, The Guilford Press, →ISBN, page 356. From the entry cognitive dissonance
  • I find that the prophecies of the Bible and Nostradamus correlate at least generally.1996 December 19, John Holladay, “Which Bible would Nostradamus have read?”, in alt.prophecies.nostradamus (Usenet). From the entry revelations
  • IT was a tale of biblical prophecy told in countercultural vernacular, and it went like this.1986 March 30, Mark Silk, “RELIGIOUS BOOKS: SEVEN THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original…. From the entry Revived Roman Empire
  • We're living in electrifying days of fulfillment of ancient Biblical prophecies.1974, Hal Lindsey, “Foreward”, in The Coming Russian Invasion of Israel, Chicago: Moody Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 5. From the entry king of the north
  • The clerical opponents of the Reformation systematically invoked Galfridian prophecy to justify their resistance.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 380. From the entry Galfridian
  • A single question put to him is good for a prophecy or a speech.1936 May 23, “TOO MUCH FARLEY”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the…. From the entry sheephood
  • Pierce remembered Hilda's prophecy that her indigent husband would turn up, like a bad penny.1918, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 17, in The Winds of Chance. From the entry bad penny
  • No, the prophecy says Kane will be unspun.2020, Emily McKay, Storybound. From the entry unspin
  • Religious movements and cults are often founded on a tetrad of elements: a prophet, a prophecy, a book, and a revelation.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 177. From the entry tetrad
  • The processes of categorization, stereotyping, discrimination, and self-fulfilling prophecy can also apply to stigmas based on blemishes of individual character.2003, Todd F. Heatherton, The Social Psychology of Stigma, page 103. From the entry blemish
  • There are no prophecies, no visionaries, no deus ex machinas.1993, Debra Moddelmog, Readers and Mythic Signs: The Oedipus Myth in Twentieth-century Fiction, page 113. From the entry deus ex machinas
  • Practically the whole race is in a frenzied excitement over what prophecy long since announced and what history uncomprehendedly recorded.1936 May 25, R. G. Williams, “A New Order”, in Charles B. Welch, editor, The Tacoma News Tribune, 53rd year, number 208, Tacoma, Wash.…. From the entry uncomprehendedly
  • Twice the cork bobbed prophecies of a fishly investigation.1916, Everybody's magazine. From the entry fishly
  • Of the fulfillment of the prophecy, more hereafter.1914: University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign campus), The Illio, volume 20, page 70. From the entry haedine
  • Evolution of prophecy, or forthspeaking on behalf of the divine.1901, Louis Wallis, An examination of society from the standpoint of evolution. From the entry forthspeaking
  • But for now, there is no prophet amongst the politicians, and the only prophecies to be heard are of nakbas and holocausts.2010, Raimond Gaita, Gaza: Morality, Law & Politics, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry nakba
  • And Catholic Marianists, for their part, have looked for ultimate authority instead in the miraculous realm of mystical visions and end-time prophecy.1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 179. From the entry Marianist
  • Marx's conviction that the proletariat would evolve a revolutionary consciousness in this sense was not a scientific opinion but an ungrounded prophecy.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume I: The Founders, Oxford: Clarendon…. From the entry ungrounded
  • Niebuhr has gone beyond all that, and the "soaring of his soul" into millennial, billennial, and even trillennial prophecy seems to have boundless possibilities.1934, Edith Abbott, Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge, The Social Service Review, page 383. From the entry billennial
  • He heard the hateful clank of their chains; he felt them cringe and grovel, and there rose within him a protest and a prophecy.1903 April 18, W[illiam] E[dward] Burghardt Du Bois, “Of Alexander Crummell”, in The Souls of Black Folk: Essays and Sketches, Chicago…. From the entry cringe
  • Possessing the gift of prophecy, I will be able to apprehend that the quest fort he Grail Hallows is meant to postcede my working Sarum there.2008, Lyric LaMage, Atlantis: Cherished Gem, Library of Congress, (unpaginated). From the entry postcede
  • “What prophecy?” I asked, somewhat aggrieved because I remembered the one made by the old elfess that I was to be doomed by a cruel lie.1984, Piers Anthony, Crewel Lye: A Caustic Yarn, Del Rey Books, →ISBN, page 92. From the entry elfess
  • This was similar to the Rambam's comment that the prophets would be misboded when they would want to attain prophecy, suggesting a link between davening and the prophetic state.1983, Aryeh Kaplan, The Aryeh Kaplan Reader: The Gift He Left Behind, →ISBN. From the entry misbode
  • If so, then in a self-fulfilling prophecy they may have been organizing their lives according to a religious belief system, and not simply an economic or ecological one.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry self-fulfilling prophecy
  • “One thing at least is certain,” remarked King Helmas, frowning uglily, “and it is that among the Peohtes all persons who dispute our prophecies are burned at the stake.”1921, James Branch Cabell, “The Crown of Wisdom”, in Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances, Robert M[edill] McBride & Co., part one…. From the entry uglily
  • Careful examination of Romaine's prophecy reveals the operative nature of the Kongolese religious habitus in the nascence of Haitian Vodou, a religion that truly began to crystallize during the Revolution.2014, Terry Rey, Bourdieu on Religion: Imposing Faith and Legitimacy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 119. From the entry nascence
  • As a revolutionary act of prophecy in an age of political science, Wissenkunst is a unique and anarchic expression of freedom, and not a new and aspiring system of indoctrination.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London…. From the entry basilisk

Meaning of prophecy

  1. noun A prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.
  2. noun The public interpretation of Scripture.

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Questions about prophecy in a sentence

How do you use prophecy in a sentence?
Prophecy is used as a noun. For example: “French writer Nostradamus made a prophecy in his book.”
What is a short sentence with prophecy?
“No, the prophecy says Kane will be unspun.”
What does prophecy mean?
Prophecy means a prediction, especially one made by a prophet or under divine inspiration.

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