Example sentences for: prophetic

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

  • In retrospect, this is nonsense, but at the time it no doubt seemed prophetic.

  • In the early pages of The Cornel West Reader, he describes himself "a Chekhovian Christian with deep democratic commitments," "a Gramscian democratic socialist," a "non-Marxist socialist," and a "prophetic, Christian pragmatist freedom fighter."

  • Following this, ancient Egyptians believed that the monument possessed prophetic powers and it still has a mysterious hold on the modern psyche.

  • So he was prophetic, too.

  • The front-page LAT "Sunday Report" looks into a prophetic 1993 Pentagon study dubbed "Terror 2000," which outlined potential terrorist scenarios--including the targeting of a major U.S. financial center, which happened months later when the World Trade Center was bombed.


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