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Example sentences for "prediction"

Lexicographically close words:
predictam; predicte; predicted; predicti; predicting; predictions; predictis; predictive; predicto; predictorum
  1. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.

  2. I made a prediction only,--it may have been a foolish one, perhaps.

  3. This proves how the prediction had weighed all this time upon my mind.

  4. This prediction was fulfilled to the letter.

  5. Her prediction has been fulfilled, and from that day, Florence Cook never saw her again nor heard anything about her.

  6. These are no trumped-up tales after the prediction had been fulfilled.

  7. This prediction was unfortunately fulfilled, even beyond the letter of it; a completion more incident, perhaps, to the predictions of malice than of affection.

  8. This prediction therefore, and the completion of it, go only to the impeachment of Falstaff’s veracity, and not of his Courage.

  9. The famous Erasmus passed his first years of study at Deventer in the latter end of the XVth century, and drew from his masters the prediction that he would "one day be the light of his age.

  10. My reason for asserting this in presence of a state of things so contrary to my prediction is that M.

  11. Before breakfast was over the ominous prediction of storm was fulfilled.

  12. Excusing herself to the impatient lover, she left the room, wondering if, after all, there could be a remote possibility that her prediction of ill luck was about to be fulfilled.

  13. He had gleaned, however, that the station master's prediction of bad weather had been verified and that a particularly heavy windstorm had swept that region early in the evening of the day on which he had talked with the young man.

  14. Indeed, Specs, his companion, was of the opinion that Oliver would be willing to cheerfully take a good ducking if he could only have his scorned prediction prove a true shot.

  15. Oliver in particular called attention to the fact that no matter how the other fellows had made fun of his prediction about the weather, it was likely to come true after all.

  16. No frost for Florida that winter--a prediction still to be ascertained, but a foregone conclusion.

  17. The prediction should have been for fair and warmer!

  18. The man who tries to sell at the top nearly always loses, because stocks seldom sell as high as it is predicted they will, or, in other words, the prediction of higher prices is advanced more rapidly than the prices.

  19. Read these chapters very carefully, for your success in stock speculation will depend very largely upon your correct prediction of these movements.

  20. At all events, his prediction was not based upon any such precise knowledge as that of the modern astronomer.

  21. Reference has already been made to the alleged prediction of the fall of the famous meteor at aegespotomi by Anaxagoras.

  22. Unkind, now, to remind him of that prediction made last night about the first ballot to the newspapers--and useless.

  23. Glebo caused Dozitheus's prediction to be spread over the little town of Susdal, and the neighbourhood thereof.

  24. Disorder and Mischief produced by this Prediction 343 4.

  25. They burnt the chosen city of holiness, and made the streets thereof desolate according to the prediction of Jeremias.

  26. These words are a prediction of that honour which the church in all ages should pay to the Blessed Virgin.

  27. That is, by their being carried out of Egypt they verified the prophetic prediction of Joseph.

  28. This was rather a prediction of what was to happen, with an approbation of the divine justice, than an imprecation.

  29. In answer to the first we may put aside at once the supposition that the prediction is made of the child who was born in that year to Octavianus and Scribonia.

  30. If Virgil was sanguine enough to predict the sex of the child, we can hardly imagine him allowing the words to stand after his prediction had been falsified.

  31. The only exercise of thought required of him is the right interpretation of an omen, or the recollection of some dubious prediction at some critical moment.

  32. He dwelt with emphasis on the remarkable attainments and uncommon promise of his pupil, and closed with a prediction of his future eminence.

  33. It embraced a comprehensive review of the entire course of General Jackson's policy, and closed with a prediction of the impending catastrophe.

  34. This prediction has now been fully verified by experiments on the solubility of barium sulphate and of gypsum.

  35. The first two parts of this newly-applied prediction have been given,--viz.

  36. This fearful prediction was consummated by Alexander, in taking the Island-Capital, and by his massacre of the population.

  37. An illustration of the fact that the belief in them as real inspired prediction continued to a late time is found in the hymn Dies Irae, in which the Sibyl is cited along with David as a prophet of the last judgment.

  38. Even Augustine speaks of the theurgi as dæmones, and cites a passage from the Erythræan Sibyl as a prediction of Christ.

  39. In the higher religions a dream is often sent by a patron deity as a prediction or for guidance in a coming emergency.

  40. Somewhere he had read a prediction that Earth would be destroyed by fire.

  41. Here was evidence that possibly at least one human being had taken that prediction seriously enough to build a bomb-and-radiation-proof shelter!

  42. Gradually the whole camp came into view, and Tayoga's prediction that it would be a large one proved true.

  43. His prediction was right, and they set forth in the dark forest, Robert wearing the great buffalo robe which stored heat and consequent energy in his frame.

  44. By an accident, in throwing a quoit he killed Acrisius, thus fulfilling the prediction of the oracle.

  45. He was the first of the Greeks who entered the Trojan domain, and on that account, in accordance with the prediction of the oracle, was killed by his countrymen.

  46. A Phrygian who, from the position of a peasant, was raised to the throne consequent on a prediction of the oracle.

  47. Those who question this rather pedestrian prediction might want to ask themselves some other questions: Where is the ornamental ink stand, the beautiful designs by Fabergé and Tiffany?

  48. Market prediction seems to be an oxymoron.

  49. Who cannot perceive the perfect harmony between Isaiah's prediction and Mr. Smith's testimony?

  50. Mr. Smith has been an instrument in the hands of God of fulfilling this prediction to the very letter.

  51. If not, then America seems to be the only place where that great prediction could receive its accomplishment.

  52. The perfect agreement between the prediction of Isaiah (chap.


  53. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prediction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.