How to Use prophecy in a Sentence

prophecy

noun
  • She has the gift of prophecy.
  • The prophecies of the author have all come true.
  • The one that leads to the prophecy.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The prophecy of the pōhaku was like that.
    — Jasmin 'iolani Hakes, Literary Hub, 5 Feb. 2026
  • Time will tell whether that prophecy comes to fruition.
    — Amanda Davies, CNN Money, 12 Nov. 2025
  • No, the four have come with a prophecy of doom on their breath.
    — A.a. Dowd, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The first homemade piece to be hung up was a bit of a prophecy.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • This book snorts syntax and barfs up prophecy.
    — Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
  • That hardly seemed to be a prophecy.
    — Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2025
  • The idea isn’t belief or prophecy.
    — William Jones january 21, Miami Herald, 21 Jan. 2026
  • What was once seen as a joke has attained the status of a prophecy.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2026
  • What role will Arya and her prophecy play when that battle comes?
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 29 Apr. 2019
  • The film’s title turned out to have a little bit of prophecy.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 25 May 2021
  • Its name is a riff on the biblical prophecy of the day the world will end.
    — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2022
  • New Yorkers will have to wait and see if that prophecy comes to pass.
    — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 4 Nov. 2021
  • From this work, Wiener drew two warnings that now read as prophecy.
    — Deb Roy, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Well, the new year is about to put Regan’s prophecy to the test.
    — Horacio Silva, Town & Country, 25 Feb. 2021
  • In it, a very small dragon eats the book in which the prophecy is written.
    — Celia Bell july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • While there, Ruth discussed prophecies and the end of the world.
    — Saleen Martin, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
  • And as any sci-fi or fantasy fan knows, prophecies can be hell.
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
  • When you were born, the village astrologer made a prophecy about you.
    — National Geographic, 2 Apr. 2017
  • Against this backdrop, Jerusalem felt to me less like a play than a prophecy.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 14 June 2022
  • There was this sense that this idea of prophecy was very real to him and not something odd.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 14 Jan. 2022
  • This story, which took a decade to bring to the small screen, begins with a prophecy.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 1 Aug. 2025
  • But maybe this is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
    — Richard E. Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 15 Apr. 2026
  • But after Week 1, that seemed more like a fever dream than a prophecy.
    — Ross Terrell, Axios, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Hegseth has not said the Iran war is part of Christian prophecy.
    — Tiffany Stanley, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2026
  • In the world of Chad Powers, that prophecy sticks.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Before a single frame was shot, the film was foretold as a kind of prophecy.
    — Jamie Lauren Keiles, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2022
  • So her advice, over all, is to be wary of predictions and prophecies.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 8 May 2026

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