How to Use prophetic in a Sentence

prophetic

adjective

• Cher’s comments proved to be prophetic in the months to come.
  — Mary Colurso | [e-mail], al, 12 Mar. 2021
• More to the point, Mann and Ornstein have proved prophetic.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2021
• 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
• But as time went on, and more people joined, the Williams view came to look prophetic.
  — Willy Staley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2023
• The Matrix just looks more and more wildly prophetic by the day.
  — WIRED, 14 Feb. 2023
• The show's early years look prophetic now in many ways.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 23 Mar. 2022
• 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
• Three-and-a-half hours later, those words seemed prophetic.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 28 Apr. 2021
• His books were so prophetic about the nature of terror.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2022
• The latter became eerily prophetic of what the Twin Cities faced in 2020.
  — Chris Riemenschneider, Star Tribune, 9 June 2021
• That was the most prophetic show of the early 21st century.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Feb. 2024
• But as a new study makes clear, the warnings have proved darkly prophetic.
  — Carolyn Barber, Fortune, 14 Dec. 2023
• The legend perhaps began to feel prophetic as Ukraine slowly turned the tide of the war.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 3 May 2022
• In the meantime, the Browns are hoping that Mayfield’s words are prophetic, and that the time is now for Landry and Beckham.
  — Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 29 June 2021
• The sideline report was prophetic as Hurts led the Eagles to a touchdown on their next drive and a 24-14 lead at the half.
  — Josh Peter, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2023
• This movie came out over two decades ago, and her words have certainly proven to be prophetic.
  — Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 23 Jan. 2023
• Fast forward 20-plus years: So much has changed and much of Miller’s forecast — and Badan’s fears — have proved prophetic.
  — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2023
• The quarterback proved prophetic, at least for the offense.
  — Mike Jones, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2021
• In some ways, the words of Jesus at her conversion were prophetic.
  — Harry Bruinius, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2023
• What makes Del Noce’s book an almost prophetic work is that it was first published in Italy in 1964.
  — Richard M. Reinsch Ii, National Review, 17 Feb. 2022
• Jones’ words proved prophetic, and Sutton is one of the many connections between the two teams.
  — Jeff Fedotin, Forbes, 21 Jan. 2023
• Still, many hoped the murmurings of a low-rise jean reunion tour would not prove prophetic.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 12 Aug. 2021
• Sheldon is on a journey to the Dustbowl to find the images in his prophetic visions.
  — Leah Marilla Thomas, refinery29.com, 10 May 2021
• Oddly, the album’s center has come to be its most prophetic.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 14 Apr. 2022
• The inscription, sadly, was not prophetic: the couple broke up in the early '90s.
  — Nate Jones, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2023
• But Ireland is now mourning O’Connor as a prophetic voice.
  — Amanda Ferguson, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2023
• That reinvention and embrace of his talents turned out to be a prophetic move.
  — Jon Freeman, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2021
• Those words would turn out to be prophetic, but not in the way Anderson intended.
  — Alex Williams, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• And the predictions made by Of the People co-chair Jeffrey Bell quickly proved prophetic.
  — Jennifer C. Berkshire, The New Republic, 9 Dec. 2021
• What resulted might be my favorite story from the Olympics, and a bit prophetic: Yuto Horigome won gold the day the story ran.
  — New York Times, 9 Aug. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024