How to Use prophesy in a Sentence

prophesy

verb
  • The book claims that modern events were prophesied in ancient times.
  • Capela, then a part-time starter, has seen most of D’Antoni’s prophesies come true.
    — Lee Jenkins, SI.com, 1 May 2018
  • The same change was prophesied by Thomas Edison, at the dawn of the movie age.
    — Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2019
  • For the breakthrough Rodríguez prophesied to come to fruition, the team needs him at full strength.
    — Cody Stavenhagen, The Athletic, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Philosophers once prophesied that evolution would lead to minds far greater — and stranger — than our own.
    — Thomas Moynihan, Big Think, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The neighbors' complaints were prophesied more than a decade ago, when the area next to the plant was filled with citrus groves.
    — Lily Altavena, azcentral, 11 July 2018
  • And many of your responses about the outcome of my dilemma prophesied it.
    — Nicole Saunders, Harper's BAZAAR, 18 Mar. 2019
  • The person who prophesied this film, more than a century ago, is Freud.
    — Michelle McNamara, The New Yorker, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Late last year, it was prophesied that bootcut jeans would return in 2019.
    — Vogue, 19 Apr. 2019
  • Maggy prophesied that Cersei would marry the king and have three children, who would all die.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 Apr. 2019
  • Her return was prophesied, in a sense, by the voice on the Matthews family telephone.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The Angel asks Prior to begin his work—their work—by prophesying.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Of course, our present is far more complex than what prior generations prophesied.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Citrini was far from the only voice prophesying such a pessimistic future.
    — Leo Schwartz, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Luke Skywalker was prophesied to destroy the Sith and bring balance to the force.
    — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 May 2024
  • As the myth goes, Odin, the god of wisdom, and his wife Frigg had a son named Baldur who was prophesied to be killed.
    — Adam Schubak, Country Living, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Few things are as reliable in prophesying a fall from grace as 30 Under 30.
    — George Pendle, airmail.news, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The praying, singing, dancing and prophesying happens on a field at night, and the energy is so high that the congregants rarely go to bed.
    — Yvonne Mooka, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024
  • From the heights of the hills, just as the security officer had prophesied, Futhu watched his world turn to ashes.
    — New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Maggy the Frog also prophesied that Cersei would have three children, who would all die before her.
    — Chanel Vargas, Marie Claire, 7 Sep. 2017
  • But despite the end-times prophesying, Gorka had captured a few grains of reality.
    — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 24 July 2019
  • Similar slight improvements are the most that even its advocates are able to prophesy for the dirigible.
    — Victor Lougheed, Popular Mechanics, 13 Aug. 2020
  • The laughs are saved for Johnson and the narrative prophesying left for Russell Crowe.
    — Jake Kring-Schreifels, Esquire, 10 June 2017
  • That footage of her channeling, chanting, lecturing, singing, and prophesying composed the bulk of her ministry.
    — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
  • One, by Donatello, seems to prophesy the other, by Michelangelo.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
  • Speaking of prophesying, faith is big in the Hurts household, and the NFL star speaks about it publicly.
    — Essence, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In the years before the virus, critics began to prophesy that a handful of tech companies would soon grow more powerful than the government.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 12 June 2020
  • The French philosophe the Marquis de Condorcet prophesied that, with the press finally free, the world would be bathed in the light of reason.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • One of them is prophesied to be the Dragon Reborn, a being who will either save or destroy humanity.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 June 2019
  • The dystopian future of autonomous weapons prophesied by films like Slaughterbots is all but here, in Ukraine.
    — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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