Example sentences for: prophecy

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

  • His acknowledgements conspicuously do not include any competent economists--not a surprising thing, one supposes, for a man who describes economics as "not really a science so much as a value-laden form of prophecy."

  • William Strauss and Neil Howe are co-authors of The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy.

  • In an editorial, the Times of London said John Jr.'s fate recalled another myth--that of Oedipus, who fulfilled a prophecy by killing his father and marrying his mother without knowing who they were.

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

  • 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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