Example sentences for: prophets

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

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

  • Like Galbraith, the prophets of what is variously called the "business revolution," the Knowledge Economy, the Network Economy, and the "new economy" (not to be confused with the New Economy I wrote about last month) are likely to be disappointed.

  • By my reckoning, Charlton Heston has played: a CIA director, two prophets (Moses, twice, and Brigham Young), two saints (Thomas More and John the Baptist), an admiral, two generals (as well as six captains and three majors), a cardinal (Richelieu), two kings (Macbeth and Henry VIII), and three presidents of the United States (Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, and Franklin Roosevelt's voice).

  • Favorite portents: the formation of the state of Israel, the end of the millennium, the continued reign of Saddam Hussein, and black helicopters ("swarming locusts" to the prophets).

  • The magazine publishes a sublime guide to America's doomsday prophets and other assorted millennialists.


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