Example sentences for: oracle

How can you use “oracle” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Legend claims that the city of Byzantium was founded around 660 b.c. by a Greek named Byzas, after the Delphic Oracle had bidden him to build his city “opposite the Land of the Blind. ”

  • But Schickel does seem to see him as some sort of Delphic oracle, and his attempts to translate the man's monosyllabic pronouncements make for hilarity: " 'Women,' Clint says, a sort of sad befuddlement in his tone, 'always want to know what you're thinking.

  • The data pertaining to the peaks (lane number, height, area, colour, calculated length of fragments) were imported into a relational database scheme (Oracle 8.01 relational database management system) and integrated with the information on the cDNA library, the location of the colonies on the microtiterplates, the colony composition of the DNA preparation, the labelling reaction, and the gel conditions.

  • Oracle blamed Asia's woes and U.S. market saturation.

  • Where the mysteries of Eleusis were only open to a few initiates, advice from the Oracle at Delphi was open to all.


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