Example sentences for: prophet

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

  • Having seen pan-Arabism bankrupted in 1967, more and more Arabs are seeking solutions from the past--in Islamic fundamentalism, which seeks to remodel Muslim societies along the lines of Arabia under the Prophet Mohammed.

  • Of how, when tea was done, and everyone had stood,He reached for my head, put his hands over it,And gently pulled me to his chest, which smelledOf dung smoke and cinnamon and mutton grease.I could hear his wheezy breathing now, like the prophet's Last whispered word repeated by the faithful.Then he prayed for what no one had time to translate--His son interrupted the old man to tell him a groupOf snake charmers sought his blessing, and a blind thief.The saint pushed me away, took one long look,Then straightened my collar and nodded me toward the door.

  • Pride of place goes to a 15-century icon of the prophet Elijah.

  • Now he's considered a prophet (Tucker Carlson, Late Edition ; Sam Donaldson, This Week ). The conspicuous absence of Clinton spinners playing "defense" on the weekend shows adds substance to the Chung report, says Tucker Carlson.

  • On the other side is Samuel Lee, a would-be seminarian with a ragged beard and the look of "an Old Testament prophet or a Russian monk."


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