Sentence examples for as prophesy from inspiring English sources

The phrase "as prophesy" is not correct in standard written English.
You might be trying to use it in a context where you refer to something that is foretold or predicted.
Example: "The events unfolded exactly as prophesy foretold, leading to an unexpected outcome."
Alternatives: "as foretold" or "as predicted".

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It's impossible to say who will win Unite's general secretary election, but the outcome should not be seen as prophesy for Unite's support of Corbyn.

Interpreting this as prophesy, Constantine placed the cross on his military banners and shields.

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Do religious groups that believe in apocalyptic doom as prophesied by the Bible invest only, say, in precious metals?

While their future as prophesied by Koresh seems assured in their minds, the future of Mount Carmel is far from certain.

In his opinion, Shelby repeatedly invoked what Justice Antonin Scalia obviously meant as prophesies of doom in the recent series of gay-rights decisions.

One worried that if Sunnis came to power in Syria, they would bar Shiites access to shrines there and in Iraq, as prophesied in a Shiite text.

The first was a vision of hell, and the second was commonly interpreted as prophesying the end of World War I and the start of World War II and the rise and fall of communism.

Augustine's disciple Paulus Orosius complicated this scheme by introducing apocalyptic material from the Book of Daniel, which was construed as prophesying four kingdoms, the last of which was the Roman Empire.

The most ingenious reinterpretation gave rise to the Seventh-day Adventists, who believed that Jesus had, in fact, already come back, exactly as prophesied and predicted but that we were too sinful to see it.

Maybe the problem is that the odds are too stacked in her favour: yes, we all want to see those dragons hovering over King's Landing as prophesied in Bran's vision, but what happens next?

The king marches his army off to find the city, but after many years the king and his minstrel are all that remain of the army, and they fail, as prophesied, to reach the city, which can only ever be glimpsed on the horizon.

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