Sample sentences for CLAIRVOYANCE

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to perceive things beyond the natural range of the senses — especially foreseeing the future

Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists.
Ursula K. LeGuin

She's either clairvoyant or highly intuitive.
She felt it, and visioned it as by an unthinkable clairvoyance, and gasped
Jack London -- The Valley of the Moon
Like clairvoyants, you might say.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Or it's called telepathy, clairvoyance, and psychokinetics.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
"What! you don't know Jules Landau, le fameux Jules Landau, le clairvoyant?
Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
We do as we think fit, guided a little by the example of the past, but still more by our present wisdom, and by our clairvoyance of the future.
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
For a moment, I thought he was clairvoyant.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
"My dear, you were undoubtedly stimulated by the extraordinary clairvoyant vibrations of my room!" said Professor Trelawney.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
In fact, it felt as if the name had existed all along, and she'd finally been clairvoyant enough to stumble across it.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
She had read them like a clairvoyant, breathed them in and given them back, so that they had a form of their own and came to me as something new.
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
You are disturbing the clairvoyant vibrations!
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Pregnancy was making every one of her senses stronger, more intense, and I swear sometimes she seemed almost clairvoyant.
Sarah Dessen -- Someone Like You
I could go about the fairs, he said, and be a fire-eater, or else a medical clairvoyant, and trade in Mesmerism and Magnetism, which is always a draw.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
Not because she was clairvoyant and had had a sudden flash of prophetic vision.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
It's not twelve hours yet since it happened ...... Oh! aren't there any real clairvoyants who could see where he is now and what he is doing ....
Agatha Christie -- The ABC Murders
Hopton Stoddard glowed in appreciation—in appreciation of the clairvoyant wisdom of Ellsworth Toohey who was always right.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
She is prescient and clairvoyant and somehow divines the thoughts of others.
Stephen King -- Rose Red
She was apparently taking some comfort in the Doctor's clairvoyancy.
Henry James -- Washington Square
They had the power of prophecy and clairvoyance.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty

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