How to Use prophet in a Sentence

prophet

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  • And a sculpture of the prophet is at the Supreme Court.
    — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2023
  • Looking back, the girl in the Vine seems close to a prophet.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021
  • 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
  • It was first built in A.D. 637, just five years after the prophet’s death.
    — Ken Chitwood, The Conversation, 12 May 2021
  • That false prophet was known simply as Q. And Kendall was about to warn his church about it.
    — John General and Richa Naik, CNN, 23 May 2021
  • The man was a genius and a prophet and the most spiritual.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 7 Nov. 2023
  • The church is led by a prophet who also serves as president of the church.
    — CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • In the summer of 1929 a few prophets foresaw the coming stock market crash.
    — Foreign Affairs, 10 June 2024
  • 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
  • It is based on a combination of the Quran, the holy book of Islam, and teachings from the prophet Muhammad.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Steven Goldfinger Thus foretold Jamaica: Trump is a false prophet!
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Apr. 2024

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