prophet

Example Sentences

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Its members had accepted his 17-year-old son, Mark, as their prophet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

You can’t be a prophet in your own land.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2025

It is based on the teachings of Bahaullah, who was born in Iran in 1817 and is considered the prophet and founder of their monotheistic faith.

From Barron's • Oct. 14, 2025

What Peck found wasn’t a prophet or a symbol but a man full of contradictions: a writer wrestling with class, illness and empire, trying to fuse politics and art before his own time ran out.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2025

But when he taught, his personality strode back and forth between mad prophet and galley-slave drummer.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss