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. ”

  • (Some of the freshest lines in the book come with his description of Oliver Stone's film The Doors , which "offers an inadvertent parody, a portrait of an amateur oracle's excruciatingly dull metamorphosis into a pitiful, drunken slob.")

  • Oracle's stock plummeted 29 percent, breaking NASDAQ's official single-company daily trading volume record.

  • We learn all this from flashbacks and from a strange oracle called Gary "Figgs" Figgis (Ray Liotta), who, when drunk, can't seem to stop himself from spewing exposition.

  • The alleles were scored visually from autoradiographs and entered into an Oracle database (Oracle Corp., Redwood Shores, CA).


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