soothsayer

How To Use soothsayer In A Sentence

• The defeat of the Persian king Darius III by Alexander the Great in the Battle of Gaugamela in 331 B.C. was foretold by soothsayers when the moon turned blood-red a few days earlier.
• As if fulfilling the portentous predictions of some medieval soothsayer, the first year of this new century has witnessed an unprecedented catalogue of warnings of the cumulative effects of climate change.
• Hector, being taken ill, consulted on his case some of the witches or soothsayers, to whom this family appears to have been partial.
• The ancient soothsayers looked to birds for auguries -- the birds upon the wing were the flexion of her soul. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
• This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » 2010 » February
• A new breed of soothsayers has already been prophesying the virtual demise of the manufacturing industry.
• They recall the prophesy that a soothsayer named Calchas had once made about the future.
• Closer inspection reveals the soothsayer had made a typically vague prophecy that a ‘very large robbery’ would take place across the water.
• And for the brief period where Ronan told the rest of them to get stuffed, Shane went out, got tatted up, and reinvented himself as some kind of soothsayer on Celebrity Love Island. Is This The Greatest GIRLBAND Ever?
• But fund managers and portfolio managers are not seers or soothsayers.