Example sentences for: prophets

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

  • These wise men who saw in their crystal ball exactly what would happen in Kosovo are truly prophets without honor.

  • On the streets of Jerusalem, the Prophets walked and spoke; on a hill beside the city’s walls, Jesus was crucified; from a rock on the then-ruined Temple Mount, the Prophet Muhammad made a miraculous ascent to enter Paradise.

  • Fight Club careers from one resonant satirical idea to the next without quite deciding whether its characters are full of crap or are Gen X prophets.

  • "On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets," he announced.

  • He was a member of the Nabis (Hebrew for "Prophets"), a loose-knit brotherhood of painters who worshiped Gauguin and, as Bonnard later recalled, "envisaged a popular art that was of everyday application."


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