How to Use fortune teller in a Sentence

fortune teller

noun
  • Even the youngest fortune tellers will be mesmerized by its sweet and tangy flavors.
    Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The evening newscast turned into a variety show, complete with fortune tellers and a game show-style announcer.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Hall’s clairvoyant was not your typical fortune teller.
    Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2025
  • The opening date was determined by Pham’s family thây bói (psychic or fortune teller), and the duo plans to stick to it.
    Kate Kassin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 June 2026
  • Jack the Clown will reign over his entourage of malicious jugglers, maniacal dancers and evil fortune tellers.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
  • And unlike carnival fortune teller, this is a celebrated profession, to be placed on billboards that tower over the city.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 27 Feb. 2026
  • When the fortune teller’s predictions start to materialize, once cynical Gemma is ready to take a leap of faith.
    Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Sep. 2025
  • For the next hour, Everest moved from fortune tellers to boxing matches to player pianos, laughing as mechanical wonders came alive.
    Maggie Downs, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The first teaser for the film lays out that mission, with Gail speaking with a fortune teller who knows way too well the specifics of Gail’s situation and sets her on her path forward.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026
  • British pubs and a Korean honky-tonk Fifty years ago, a fortune teller told Mama Kim to open a country and western bar in Seoul.
    Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2025
  • For the city at eye level, Temple Street Night Market pulls you back with fortune tellers, bootleg merch, and food stalls throwing off a humid neon haze.
    Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Nov. 2025
  • The action does slow down at times, as in the arrival of a fortune teller (an otherworldly Rhonda Boutté) whose message is that the past is harder to predict than the future.
    Manuel Mendoza, Dallas Morning News, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Toombs is best known today as the face of fortune teller Madame Leota inside the crystal ball in the Haunted Mansion’s seance circle at Disneyland.
    Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The film follows Sakol, who – after a fortune teller warns him his elderly mother may die soon – gathers the family for a ritual journey across Thailand’s temple landscape.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 22 May 2026
  • Meet Grand Ole Opry, the city’s iconic honky-tonk where cowboy boots meet K-culture — all thanks to Mama Kim and a fateful fortune teller encounter 50 years ago.
    Sarah Hutter, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Lisa and her mom visited a fortune teller after her audition for the South Korean media agency YG Entertainment.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 23 June 2026
  • The transformations take place after Anna’s bachelorette party during which the four women visited a fortune teller (Vanessa Bayer).
    Erin Jensen, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Manobal and her mother went to see a fortune teller after her audition to join YG Entertainment, the famed South Korean enterprise, which doubles as a talent agency and record label.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 23 June 2026
  • After a visit with an oddball fortune teller (Vanessa Bayer) during the bachelorette party, Anna switches with Harper while Tess ends up in Lily's body (and vice versa).
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 8 Aug. 2025
  • In mid-19th century Iran, painter Nowruz falls for a fearlessly defiant Roma fortune teller, sparking their desperate flight and a tragic saga echoing down generations, the synopsis runs.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026

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