Example sentences for: prophecy

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

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

  • 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.

  • And as Ward Connerly said the other day, that sets up a self-fulfilling prophecy that is killing the kids--and America's future in the bargain.

  • Now Australia's fear of Indonesia is turning out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy."

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


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