prophets
Example Sentences
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"I hear, here and there, the prophets of doom predicting the worst," said Finance Minister Roland Lescure regarding France's ability to service its debt.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Williams drew on the Hebrew prophets to “describe his ideal of a Christian society”; Penn ensured that his colony’s statutes protected religious liberty.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025
“God sends prophets here and there into the earth,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2025
Pennington, for example, characterized slavery as “an institution of the dark age” while critiquing the “monarchs, patriarchs, and prophets of the South.”
From Salon ● Nov. 10, 2024
The other prophets joined in, praying, cursing, prophesying together with a kind of weird music.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
