Example sentences for: prophecy

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

  • Podhoretz's famous essay was regarded as bizarre at the time, but 33 years later, it seems like prophecy.

  • The scope of global "contagion"--the rapid spread of the crisis to countries with no real economic links to the original victim--convinced me that IMF critics such as Jeffrey Sachs were right in insisting that this was less a matter of economic fundamentals than it was a case of self-fulfilling prophecy, of market panic that, by causing a collapse of the real economy, ends up validating itself.

  • If the whites all leave, decline may become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

  • ( Fortune has described it as "a policymakers' version of The Celestine Prophecy .") And Rothschild is certainly a bright, energetic fellow.

  • A regular feature of the Clinton years has been the unfulfilled prophecy that the president is--any second now--about to make a sharp turn to the left.


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