sibyl
Example Sentences
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Sherman has been the sibyl of such proliferating confusions, toying with representation’s integrity and the boundaries of identity for more than four decades.
From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2024
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
The writer: syndicated Gossip Columnist Joyce Haber, 42, who was ousted by the Times after nine years of being cheered, feared and courted as Hollywood's most powerful journalistic sibyl.
From Time Magazine Archive
People were coming from as far away as Barahona to talk “through” this ebony black sibyl with the Mirabal sisters.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
Vocabulary lists containing sibyl
Reading: Literature - Mythology - Introductory
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - Middle School
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Reading: Literature - Mythology - High School
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