Example Sentences

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They were divining rods, he said, the kind used by mystics to find water in the desert.

From The New Yorker • May 9, 2016

And as if he were divining her thoughts, Mr. Sleuth walked forward and stared at the stove.

From The Lodger by Lowndes, Marie Belloc

Evidently the finer and more delicate instincts of a woman were divining my motive and sympathizing with my mental and sentimental perplexity.

From Police!!! by Hutt, Henry

Saul made a special war on the soothsayers and the fortunetellers, because they were divining evil things of him.

From The Woman's Bible by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady