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.

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 Meanings and Examples of ORACLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
oracle
 n.  answer of god; communications, revelations, or messages delivered by god to the prophets
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.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK VIII
2  He called it his oracle, and said, it pointed out the time for every action of his life.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
3  By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER X.
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
5  Then, freed from the oracle, the Lydian people man their fleet, laid by divine ordinance in the foreign captain's hand.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
6  I might not ally my daughter to any of her old wooers; such was the universal oracle of gods and men.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
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.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In I
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
9  Atlanta read, knew the oracle had spoken, and, as loyal Confederates, they hastened to cast Rhett out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
11  But now for broad Italy hath Apollo of Grynos bidden me steer, for Italy the oracles of Lycia.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
12  For here will I place thine oracles and the secrets of destiny uttered to my people, and consecrate chosen men, O gracious one.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
13  Omens and oracles of gods go down before them, and all under malign influence clamour for awful war.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
14  In no wise am I dismayed by those divine oracles of doom the Phrygians insolently advance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
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.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—AN ANCIENT SALON
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.