How to Use prophet in a Sentence

prophet

noun

• And a sculpture of the prophet is at the Supreme Court.
  — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
• It will be based on one book, that of God and his prophet.
  — Nic Robertson and Tim Lister, CNN, 14 Oct. 2021
• Willem Dafoe plays Heimir the Fool—half jester, half mad prophet.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 25 Apr. 2022
• And oh, Allah, please send peace to our prophet, the master of the worlds.
  — NBC News, 13 Sep. 2023
• The man was a genius and a prophet and the most spiritual.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
• The book was partly inspired by the life of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam.
  — Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2022
• The polygamy of Mormonism’s second prophet, Brigham Young, is well known.
  — and David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Oct. 2022
• In the Old Testament, prophets seem to be on speed dial to Zion.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• Sikhs use it to refer to God and the ten prophet leaders, or gurus.
  — Manvir Singh, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2024
• This makes his predictions sound like the stuff of a madman or a prophet.
  — David Kushner, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
• The actor sees in her subject not a victim so much as a prophet.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 1 Sep. 2023
• In many parts of the world, Bob Marley is considered like a prophet.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 10 Nov. 2022
• In the summer of 1929 a few prophets foresaw the coming stock market crash.
  — Harold Van B. Cleveland, Foreign Affairs, 7 Nov. 2023
• The double prophet called down something, and 42 people were mauled by a bear.
  — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 25 Aug. 2022
• Be your head anointed with holy oil, as kings, priests, and prophets were anointed.
  — Town & Country, 7 May 2023
• The artist Nam June Paik is often described as a prophet of the digital age.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2023
• This is why Lorenz Hart, though dead of drink in 1943, remains the great prophet of rhyme in American lyrics and light verse.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
• Villanelle murders them both — and then turns on the lying false prophet who led her astray.
  — Kat Rosenfield, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2022
• Perhaps one needed to be there, to feel the force of his presence, his prophet’s manner.
  — Nikhil Krishnan, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2022
• Raury is the hermit-prophet of the Atlanta music scene.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 5 June 2022
• Like every true prophet, Coltrane had wandered but was not lost.
  — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Survivors of abuse, however, saw the SNL appearance as the act of a prophet.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 29 July 2023
• And the main throughline of it all is, of course, our dude Yorke, sounding at turns either like a madman or a prophet.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2022
• David Koresh, a young man who had taken charge of the small group, claimed to be the final prophet before the end times.
  — Paul J. Becker, The Conversation, 28 Feb. 2023
• To look upon an image of the prophet Muhammad, for many Muslims, is against their faith.
  — Jeffrey Clark, Fox News, 4 Jan. 2023
• According to the website Behind the Name, the biblical Ezekiel was a prophet who lived in Jerusalem.
  — Jamie Ballard, Woman's Day, 23 Mar. 2023
• More than any human, that person is Jesus Christ, priest, prophet and king.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Sep. 2022
• Gibson is a prophet of the future, and he's always been so accurate.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 20 Oct. 2022
• In stretches on Saturday, Louisville made Pegues a prophet.
  — Brett Dawson, The Courier-Journal, 4 Dec. 2021
• Blasts hit Pakistan on prophet’s birthday, killing dozens The city was home to 500 Sikh families five years ago.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024