How to Use epiphany in a Sentence

epiphany

noun

• Seeing her father again when she was an adult was an epiphany that changed her whole view of her childhood.
• That proved to be a watershed moment, maybe even an epiphany.
  — Bennett Durando, The Denver Post, 23 Oct. 2024
• An epiphany, one that never fails to elicit whoops and applause, follows.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• Only if the program could give Trump some sort of epiphany—which Atamanuik knows won’t happen.
  — Laura Bradley, HWD, 24 Aug. 2017
• My epiphany was that the event feels more traumatic because it has not been condemned outright on a national scale.
  — Dahlia Lithwick, Slate Magazine, 22 Aug. 2017
• Many of us have had a similar epiphany while listening to In Rainbows.
  — Chris Deville, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2017
• But an epiphany awaited him at East Mecklenburg High School.
  — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 16 Oct. 2017
• Prepare to experience epiphany while disguised in a costume.
  — Jennifer Culp, Them, 25 Oct. 2024
• But on Monday morning, fresh off a painful loss in Charlotte the night before, Vogel had an epiphany.
  — Josh Robbins, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• For Harrison, the epiphany was that the folks running rail yards knew far more about railroading than the bureaucrats at headquarters.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2017
• At some level, the sudden spike in chatter about antitrust seemed driven more by the need to fill a public relations void than by a sudden epiphany about the political economy.
  — Brian Beutler, New Republic, 16 Sep. 2017
• As if there was something of loss and epiphany at the same time.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
  — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
• And then in the mid-’90s, when web search became a thing, there was this epiphany.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 May 2021
• The truth is that Hageman didn't have some sort of epiphany about Trump.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
• Five years into the project, in 2017, Yu had an epiphany.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2021
• Strauss has a full opera to prepare you for this epiphany.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
• And then, like an epiphany from the saints, a glint of yellow caught my eye.
  — Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• With this epiphany came a sort of release and a strange calmness.
  — Rachel Deloache Williams, The Hive, 13 Apr. 2018
• Within just a few years, though, Ms. Gump had an epiphany.
  — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
• Like a modern-day Prometheus, Maslow stole epiphany from the gods and gave it to mortals.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 3 May 2018
• After all this time, Gov. Hochul wakes up on June 5 and has an epiphany.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
• The University of Louisville linebacker, sidelined last December by a gunshot wound in the elbow, rejects the notion that a brush with danger must end with an epiphany.
  — Tim Sullivan, The Courier-Journal, 5 Aug. 2017
• Boyce soon had his own epiphany moment on a city street en route to the subway.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
• That was an epiphany about what good writing might be, at least in my case.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 June 2024
• The 29-year-old researcher said his work was sparked by an epiphany in his life a few years ago.
  — Author: William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2018
• By 2013, Finkelstein had an epiphany: the face of the enemy should be George Soros.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Don Draper’s newly sober, bizarre epiphany at the end of Mad Men that soft drinks can unite the world.
  — Mike Scalise, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• There was no epiphany, just dirt, the vast curtain between this realm and the other.
  — Aria Aber, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• But looking at the classic Porsche gave Bradley an epiphany.
  — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024