SOOTHSAYER in a Sentence

Learn SOOTHSAYER from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for SOOTHSAYER, such as:

1. The king does not know what these omens portend and asks his soothsayers to interpret them.
2. My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.
3. And that the event might accord with the prognostics, he commanded his officers to place the soothsayers in front of the battle.

Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Input your word:
Search Sentence
Want to search a word in classic works?
Search Classic Quotes
 Meanings and Examples of SOOTHSAYER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
soothsayer
 n.  person supposed to be able to foresee future;
Classic Sentence:
1  For in sleep the phantom of Cassandra the soothsayer seemed to give me blazing brands: Here seek your Troy, she said; here is your home.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
2  Halesus had his father the soothsayer kept hidden in the woodland: when the old man's glazing eyes sank to death, the Fates laid hand on him and devoted him to the arms of Evander.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
3  My mother does indeed sometimes send for a soothsayer and question him, but I give his prophecyings no heed.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK I
4  The religion of the Gentiles had its beginning in the responses of the oracles and in the prognostics of the augurs and soothsayers.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII.
5  And that the event might accord with the prognostics, he commanded his officers to place the soothsayers in front of the battle.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV.
Example Sentence:
1  The king does not know what these omens portend and asks his soothsayers to interpret them.