sibyl

Example Sentences

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It was deemed a line straight to God — staggering, the voice of an enchantress, a sibyl, a siren.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2021

Since the mid-1980s, Ms. Cook has reigned as a kind of sibyl channeling the wisdom and humanity of the American songbook, particularly as embodied in the work of Stephen Sondheim.

From New York Times • Jun. 22, 2016

As she and Mr. Charlap performed standards on Wednesday, you had the feeling of being in the presence of an empathic sibyl gently reminding you that life goes on.

From New York Times • Nov. 4, 2011

He shows Emperor Octavian asking the Tiburtine sibyl whether any king as great as he would ever live; the sibyl replies by showing the Emperor a vision of the Christ Child.

From Time Magazine Archive

“A sibyl of a medieval nun. She has guided my life.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole