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How To Use oracle In A Sentence

• Lord A---- has tasted all the _nouveaux plats à la mode_, for at Paris new dishes are as frequently invented as new bonnets or caps; and the proficiency in the culinary art which he has acquired will render him an oracle at his clubs, until the more recent arrival of some other epicurean from the French capital deposes his brief sovereignty. The Idler in France
• Meng-chia which is based upon oracle bone texts, -- The most recent general study on feudalism, and on feudalism in China, is in R. Coulborn, _Feudalism in History_, Princeton 1956. A History of China
• The suspended flotilla includes modern powerboats, yachts and coracles.
• In its original form, this involved saints like Columba taking to his coracle (that bobbing teacup of a leather boat, without rudder or oars), trusting the waves to carry him wherever they might.
• I should see and heare some Oracles from the heavens, and from the gleed of the Sun. The Golden Asse
• As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature. Dbqp: visualizing poetics
• He insists that, even though he wears the garlands of victory, he must leave the city of Argos in disgrace and return to the oracle of Apollo in the city of Pytho, also called Delphi.
• We are fascinated by the idea of premonition, oracles and anything that would allow a sneak peak at the unknown. Buzzine » Joe Manganiello Interview
• He prefers the Teifi coracle because he likes working with cleft wild woods such as willow, hazel and ash rather than pre-sawn materials.
• PeopleSoft has also sued Oracle in connection with the hostile takeover bid.