prophesy
verb (used with object)
to foretell or predict.
were prophesying
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past progressiveof prophesy.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It wasn’t long after the pandemic took hold that some folks were prophesying the end of American cities.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
The men were prophesying from the depths and the abundance of their self-consciousness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 by Various
Others were prophesying, talking in tongues, singing, shouting, and praying.
From The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite by Alfred Henry Lewis
During my absence in New York city, Lewis and his confederates were prophesying that I would never trouble them more, and shaking their heads quite ominously at the happy riddance.
From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Austin Steward
If we only knew that we were prophesying at the time!
From John Brown: A Retrospect Read before The Worcester Society of Antiquity, Dec. 2, 1884. by Alfred S. (Alfred Seelye) Roe
