How to Use seer in a Sentence

seer

noun
  • All the seers and prophets are gone, their knowledge lost to the dust of time.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Not in seers, not in sibyls, not in spirits from the great beyond.
    — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • Tourists and sight-seers are the rare exception instead of the norm.
    — USA Today, 18 Mar. 2020
  • All the great seers and philosophers say our daily life is an illusion.
    — Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
  • None of us is a seer and planning is not about knowing what is going to happen in the future.
    — Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • Legend says it was founded by a blind seer fleeing from burning Troy.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 10 July 2021
  • The Wordsworthian seer blest cracks her open and reshapes her for the better.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2021
  • Laqueur’s book dwells on the way that canines often function in art—as seers of things that people miss.
    — Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • Faith Ringgold, artist-agitator-seer, can be thanked for that.
    — New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Some eagle-eyed observers even shared close-up screen grabs of this seer, showing her to have different colored eyes.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Feb. 2026
  • So had the tournament officials and the crowds of sight- seers who had apparently come out from the city.
    — Melody Chiu, PEOPLE.com, 26 July 2019
  • No seer, from Cassandra onward, has ever been happy to be proved correct.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The Patriots had no business being in this game and nearly won it because of their sideline seer.
    — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2022
  • The best leaders are synthesizers, sense-makers, big-picture-seers.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 20 June 2018
  • Tax seers have a batting average well below that of the local weather forecaster.
    — Martin Shenkman, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • On the seventh day of prayers, Tudo spoke to her cousins through a seer, a woman who served as a conduit between the living and the dead.
    — Carlo Gabuco, National Geographic, 9 Apr. 2019
  • One of the main reasons why smoking burgers is so rare is the peristent myth that the patty will remain soft and crumbly without the high-heat seer.
    — Chuck Blount, ExpressNews.com, 1 July 2019
  • The government even organized helicopters to shower flower petals on the saints and seers taking a holy dip.
    — Kyra Colah, Fox News, 8 Feb. 2025
  • So the multitude of pilgrims, devotees, seers and ascetics is even bigger than usual — and even easier to get lost in.
    — Atul Loke, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2025
  • Agnes is both a seer and healer, preparing natural remedies for the townsfolk to help with ailments and sickness.
    — Nathan Smith, Time, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Yet for me, of all those proffering a seer-stone to secret knowledge today, Q is the most interesting.
    — Matt Farwell, The New Republic, 22 Oct. 2019
  • This striking combination made Dylan seem like both an age-defying seer and a post-modern shaman.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2021
  • On 16 April, two Hindu seers were lynched after a mob stopped their car and mistook them for Muslims.
    — Parth M.n., WIRED, 23 Nov. 2023
  • The poet was a hero, a seer, a towering figure (Yeats above all), whose themes were history, epic and elegy.
    — The Economist, 14 May 2020
  • Like Ernst and his fellow Surrealists, the German sees himself as an artist-seer.
    — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Identity becomes a performance of shifting perceptions between the seer and the seen.
    — Christopher Knightart Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • Zach Galifianakis pops up as the Happy Medium, a seer who points the way to the missing father.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Chuck discovers that Megan is an associate of a Moab seer, who just happens to be his estranged mother, a real piece of work.
    — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 15 Dec. 2019
  • The finale will also reveal who is the seer, a new twist where the winner of last week's mission will have the ability to see whether a player of their choice is a faithful or traitor.
    — Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2025
  • The seer, a game twist introduced in the last episode, was finally announced following Reyes’ departure.
    — Nicole Fell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2025

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