How to Use prophetic in a Sentence

prophetic

adjective
  • The words turned out to be prophetic.
    — Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Those words proved to be prophetic.
    — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Who knew how prophetic that would prove to be?
    — Kansas City Star, 19 Dec. 2025
  • Three years on it is starting to look prophetic.
    — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Cher’s comments proved to be prophetic in the months to come.
    — Mary Colurso | [email protected], al, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The choice of venue seemed almost prophetic.
    — Alice Gregory, New Yorker, 16 Nov. 2025
  • Those words looked prophetic hours later.
    — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • That prophetic witness is going to speak about a lot of things.
    — Amanda Lewellyn, Vox, 10 May 2025
  • Now those words appear prophetic.
    — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • One piece of advice sprung to mind, prophetic of her high school success.
    — Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2024
  • But as a new study makes clear, the warnings have proved darkly prophetic.
    — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Those words proved prophetic, but not in a way anyone could have imagined.
    — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 16 June 2025
  • Compare this to the haftorah, the prophetic portion read this week.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 18 June 2018
  • More quasi-prophetic dreams followed—about 20 of them in all.
    — Nicholson Baker, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
  • This movie came out over two decades ago, and her words have certainly proven to be prophetic.
    — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
  • But as time went on, and more people joined, the Williams view came to look prophetic.
    — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
  • On the eve of the game, Grimm spoke seven words that couldn’t have been more prophetic.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Laisure’s response to Shane was prophetic.
    — John J. Lennon, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Matrix just looks more and more wildly prophetic by the day.
    — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Ford spoke to a group of school children, and one of them, a girl, asked him a prophetic question.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 9 Aug. 2024
  • One thing has remained the same, making Cronin feel a bit prophetic.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2024
  • But a caveat came with that — one that proved prophetic Tuesday if only for a night.
    — Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2026
  • Still, many hoped the murmurings of a low-rise jean reunion tour would not prove prophetic.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
  • One of the most prophetic words that have ever been uttered to me in my life were said to me by Kris.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2021
  • People see ghosts, have visions, and suffer prophetic dreams.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The two boys were in awe of the surroundings on pit road when Busch winked at them and gave a prophetic word.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2017
  • In some ways, the words of Jesus at her conversion were prophetic.
    — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Barely one month into the season, Drake has proved to be prophetic.
    — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Yet prophetic utterance was not the tenor of the book or what McHarg had in mind.
    — Nikil Saval, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2020
  • In the neon glow of that city, Caparas came to believe their encounter was prophetic.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024

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