In a sentence
Six example sentences with prophetic, each labelled with its topic.
The novel's opening paragraph reads as prophetic now, describing a flooded city forty years before the levees actually broke.
Literature
A minor character's prophetic warning about the mine returns in the last reel, word for word, as the tunnel floods.
Movies
Ancient writers treated dreams as prophetic, reading a dead relative's appearance at night as instruction about the coming harvest.
Philosophy
Chroniclers called the comet of 1066 prophetic, and when the king lost his crown that autumn the sign seemed confirmed.
History
The folk song's line about the silent mill sounded prophetic when the factory closed the following spring.
Music
The mural now seems prophetic, painted a decade before the river swallowed the very street it shows underwater.
Art
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