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    Use "fortune-teller" in a sentence

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    fortune-teller


    1. I consulted another psychic fortune-teller called Betty


    2. “He who goes to a fortune-teller or an augur and believes their sayings has stopped believing in the revelation that descended on Mohammed


    3. The fortune-teller, the augur, and the astrologer all pretend to know what events will happen in the future, and so the one who believes them has stopped believing in Al’lah and his messenger (cpth)


    4. Why, if I was a fortune-teller—"


    5. "But I am not a fortune-teller," he said, letting his head drop into a festoon of towel, and towelling away at his two ears


    6. And finally there were the workaday tradespeople who supplied visitors and stallholders with their commonplace needs: bakers, brewers, confectioners, fortune-tellers and prostitutes


    7. She went to a fortune-teller and asked about Allen


    8. The fortune-teller told her that Allen wasn’t dead


    9. My fate, whether or not the promise of the fortune-teller’s card would be kept, depended on my success or failure


    10. I carry in my wallet the fortune-teller’s card that he carried in his—YOU ARE DESTINED TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER—and I dare to believe that it means not just Odd and Stormy, but all of us

    11. “Mommy! What happened to your hand?” Cate was already examining the bandaged thumb like a fortune-teller, and as much as it hurt, Regan loved this, the thoughtless thoughtfulness, the way Cate, at six, hadn’t quite internalized-slash-hallucinated the difference between her own pain and the pain of others


    12. He shoved it into his pocket, next to his Codex, because if he’d held on to it he wouldn’t have been able to resist the temptation to stare at the number on it, as if it was some mysterious fortune-teller in the market


    13. Hunched over his cane, the fortune-teller runs a gnarled hand across the surface of his deflated cheeks


    14. "In the name of Allah most beneficent, most merciful," the old fortune-teller whispers


    15. Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was in the galleys


    16. I knew gipsies and fortune-tellers did not express themselves as this seeming old woman had expressed herself; besides I had noted her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features


    17. It illustrates well the truth I wish to state on more sides than one: “Six years ago, a Chinese fortune-teller, while in California, heard a Chinese missionary speaking to a crowd of his countrymen on the subject of superstition


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    Synonyms for "fortune-teller"

    clairvoyant seer