soothsay
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
But, he added, the ability to soothsay where a young man is going to be five years from now requires the scout to dig even deeper.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 7, 2016
A regular monthly column, for example, is called "Haruspex," for the Roman soothsay ers who divined the future by poking through the entrails of sacrificial animals.
From Time Magazine Archive
This stuff, stirred by the komfo diviner, answers questions and enables man to soothsay.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Sir Richard Francis Burton
As soon as he was a little restored, Dontsovna came to him to soothsay; but she told him nothing good.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
He began to soothsay whether he should go or not.
From The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Kathryn Hunter is downright otherworldly as all three of the shape-shifting, soothsaying weird sisters.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
At least this is definitive proof that The Post doesn’t pay me for soothsaying.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2017
They’re like Tom Riddle’s diary of academic soothsaying.
From Slate ● Dec. 22, 2016
Honestly, there was so much loudmouthed soothsaying that it was hard to tell who was saying what.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 21, 2016
“Madame Ionesco, if a person—two persons to be precise—are not actually dead, but merely absent, would your soothsaying powers still enable you to send them a message?”
From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood
