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How to use prophesy in a sentence

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Climate change is the environmental fear that provokes the greatest degree of apocalyptic prophesy.
Because such a four-tiered system is still in the future, I can only prophesy its appearance.
They recall the prophesy that a soothsayer named Calchas had once made about the future.
In some cases their clairvoyant powers were employed by chiefs for advice and prophesy.
Some religious groups created, forged, Sibylline books of their own to give credence to their own claims of prophesy.
For those who don't have the possibility to learn astrology, there are simpler and easier methods to prophesy their future.
If this was meant as an insult, it soon flowered into prophesy.
An old soothsayer, called in to prophesy, had said that the young man would be a prophet of great renown.
Nonetheless, these worrying trends towards social disruption are not a self-fulfilling prophesy that we should accept fatalistically.
They will not cease to prophesy until they are killed at the very end of this period of time.
The oracle's prophesy declares that Athens will one day conquer Thebes.
This area is also famous as Macbeth Country, and the The Birnam Wood, made famous by the witches' prophesy in Shakespeare's MacBeth, is on the south bank of the River Tay.
Amos, born in the Southern Kingdom, was sent by God to prophesy in the Northern Kingdom.
Not only prophets who can prophesy, but also those who are of goodness and true faith can learn the will of God from time to time.
We feel the urgency to discover together the ways of prophesy of the woman preacher in this concrete moment in history.
Rev 11:3-4 And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
Since this was in the nature of prophesy, the papal legate was able to insist that this showed clearly that the Church should be leading the Crusade.
Problem is, if enough people jump ship, that will become a self-fulfilling prophesy.
We must maintain our visions, prophesy hope, and remain faithful and committed to the struggle, even and especially when facing so many daily apocalypses and forms of death.
Yes, milady, and the prophesy is being fulfilled at the moment!
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Examples from Classical Literature
You good, fat people always prophesy ruin if things don't go exactly your way.
And now, as one who is about to die, he will prophesy to them.
Take the case of Alonso de Ercilla's epic La Araucana, in which the Spaniard Ercilla seeks the counsel of an Araucanian magician to prophesy about events in Europe.
The second was the donkey belonging to a Mesopotamian seer named Balaam, who had been hired by the Moabites to prophesy against the Israelites, their enemies.
Old Master Cheever had lived so long, and seen so many generations of school-boys grow up to be men, that now he can almost prophesy what sort of a man each boy will be.
They will jeer at me when I prophesy, and prophesy with the utmost confidence, that at the next presidential election the socialists will poll over a million votes.
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