Example sentences for: prophecies

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

  • Robert Darnton, an expert on the history of the book, predicts a long life for the medium in the New York Review of Books . The prophecies of '60s media guru Marshall McLuhan have not come to pass.

  • Because they are the most convincing form of publicity around, which gives them the quality of self-fulfilling prophecies.

  • Del Castillo believes that Doña Marina was following her religious faith and belief in a godly force, the prophecies of Quetzalcoatl, and did not think she was betraying her people.

  • But Joachim did have an echo in poetry, since his prophecies inspired Yeats' "Second Coming."

  • On 13 May 1917, three young shepherds claimed they saw a series of miraculous visions of the Virgin Mary — said to disclose three secrets, or prophecies, to the children — followed by a solar phenomenon witnessed by thousands in October of the same year.


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