ORACLE in a Sentence
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21 example sentences for ORACLE, such as:
1. In times of difficulty, she pray for an oracle to guide her
2. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.
3. In no wise am I dismayed by those divine oracles of doom the Phrygians insolently advance.
4. But now for broad Italy hath Apollo of Grynos bidden me steer, for Italy the oracles of Lycia.
5. Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war.
2. He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.
3. In no wise am I dismayed by those divine oracles of doom the Phrygians insolently advance.
4. But now for broad Italy hath Apollo of Grynos bidden me steer, for Italy the oracles of Lycia.
5. Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war.
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Meanings and Examples of ORACLE
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oracle
n. an authoritative person who divines the future
n. a shrine where an oracular god is consulted
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 But Agamemnon was glad when he heard his chieftains quarrelling with one another, for Apollo had foretold him this at Pytho when he crossed the stone floor to consult the oracle.
2 He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.
3 By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation.
4 Nor does the embroidered purple so move the King, nor the sceptre of Priam, as his daughter's marriage and the bridal chamber absorb him, and the oracle of ancient Faunus stirs deep in his heart.
5 Then, freed from the oracle, the Lydian people man their fleet, laid by divine ordinance in the foreign captain's hand.
6 I might not ally my daughter to any of her old wooers; such was the universal oracle of gods and men.
7 The Preceptor Pangloss was the oracle of the family, and little Candide heard his lessons with all the good faith of his age and character.
8 Brujon, who was somewhat of an oracle, and who had, as the reader knows, "put up the job," had not as yet spoken.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—A CAB RUNS IN ENGLISH AND BARKS IN SLANG
9 Atlanta read, knew the oracle had spoken, and, as loyal Confederates, they hastened to cast Rhett out.
10 Next we graze the high reefs and jutting rocks of Pachynus; and far off appears Camarina, forbidden for ever by oracles to move, and the Geloan plains, and vast Gela named after its river.
11 But now for broad Italy hath Apollo of Grynos bidden me steer, for Italy the oracles of Lycia.
12 For here will I place thine oracles and the secrets of destiny uttered to my people, and consecrate chosen men, O gracious one.
13 Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war.
14 In no wise am I dismayed by those divine oracles of doom the Phrygians insolently advance.
15 There are people who will have influence at any price, and who will have other people busy themselves over them; when they cannot be oracles, they turn wags.
Example Sentence:
1 In times of difficulty, she pray for an oracle to guide her
2 Like many others who sought divine guidance from the oracle at Delphi, Oedipus could not understand the enigmatic oracular warning he received.
3 The earth is the great parent of all, the stones are her bones; these we may cast behind us; this, I think, the oracle means.