How to Use soothsayer in a Sentence

soothsayer

noun
  • To much of the viewing audience, maybe, but not to us, and few other soothsayers in our midst.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024
  • So Nick decides to crack the soothsayer's eggs and create — well, that's what the second act is for.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017
  • Prepping has gone mainstream, its adherents no longer fringe actors but quirky soothsayers of sorts.
    — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 16 Apr. 2020
  • What brought her fame, however, was her career as a soothsayer, adviser and nurse.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • Fashion soothsayers look to a show's opening (or closing) model to predict a new campaign face.
    — Veronique Hyland, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Jan. 2011
  • These soothsayer-magicians would tell a general whether or not to march or to do battle by the formations of the birds on the wing.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2020
  • Schematic soothsayers will emerge from every corner of the football universe trying to get in on the fracas.
    — Conor Orr, SI.com, 10 July 2019
  • Raleigh, ruled by her soothsayer daughters, seems to have been expecting these distressed visitors.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Oct. 2019
  • Nick consults with a soothsayer, who informs him that the future of theatre involves acting, singing, and dancing all at once.
    — courant.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But the reality is those experts are not perfect fortunetellers or soothsayers.
    — Steve Nabity, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Salvatore was saving his life, and doing it with a soothsayer’s ability.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 30 Aug. 2023
  • That’s proof the forecaster is an oracle—and journalists love to look into the future with the help of a soothsayer.
    — Dan Gardner, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The most amazing soothsayers are the ones who see far into the future, their predictions carrying no hint of their time period.
    — Nick Thieme, Slate Magazine, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Its chef-author, Joshua McFadden, had been known for years as a vegetable soothsayer.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Through the 20th century, a sprawling market of urban soothsayers grew.
    — Sam Kestenbaum, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Imagine how this show would have been received if the controversy had never happened; if it had been unveiled from his perch as high soothsayer of the industry.
    — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Therein, three decades later, Perot’s words ring like a soothsayer’s cautionary tale of governments enabling the wrong chips.
    — Steve Tengler, Forbes, 11 June 2021
  • For more than a century’s worth of Colorado high school state wrestling tournaments, the sage and the soothsayer have been unrelenting constants.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Well, spend much time around the Padres, and the question becomes what the pitchers would do without their guru/sensei/soothsayer and counselor/mentor/teacher/friend.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 June 2018
  • During the third and fourth centuries ad, when the ancient world was shaken to its core and everything was changing, there were so many astrologers, clairvoyants, and soothsayers that the popes took fright.
    — Olga Tokarczuk, Harper's Magazine, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Just beyond the respectable edges of Paris, among the soothsayers and strongmen, works Suzanne (Anaïs Demoustier).
    — Ben Croll, IndieWire, 12 May 2026
  • When a local soothsayer says the next big thing in theater will feature people singing, dancing and acting, all at the same time, the siblings pen world’s very first — and wackiest — musical.
    — Andrea Simakis, cleveland, 29 Sep. 2019
  • Just as Dumbledore could pull a thought from his ear and drop it in a birdbath to reveal the secrets of the past, these soothsayers pore over sales data of the past year to divine hints of the future.
    — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 29 Jan. 2018
  • Like soothsayers of the past (except using data and reasoning), data scientists read patterns and signs to forecast what companies could do for growth or to solve problems.
    — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 17 Jan. 2020
  • When a local soothsayer foretells that the future of theater involves singing, dancing and acting at the same time, Nick and Nigel set out to write the world’s first musical.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2024
  • The insight came via the performance of Gerald Rivers, who assumes the role of an emcee narrator in addition to playing the soothsayer.
    — Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2021
  • Colman Domingo plays a soothsayer orchestrating the revelation of decades’ worth of evidence that aliens have visited earth in peace.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 10 June 2026
  • The soothsayer saw a future involving the sea and airplanes, The Miami Herald reports.
    — Howard Cohen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2017
  • If nothing else, Kidman should rally the rest of her Big Little Lies castmates as a roving band of blonde soothsayers and harbingers of eternal sleep.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Trump’s onetime soothsayer Steve Bannon is trying to emerge from exile after the president dumped him for his backbiting, leaky ways in the White House.
    — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 31 July 2018

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