How to Use formation in a Sentence

formation

noun
  • The team ran on the field and lined up in a punt formation.
  • The book explains the formation of the planets.
  • The soldiers were marching in formation.
  • The mixtape goes all the way back to the 1970s and the early formation of hip hop.
    Orlando Mendiola, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Our art started in the sand, the rocks, the very formation of Australia.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Sporting has mixed up its formations in a pinch in the past.
    Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
  • So the back has got to be able to play excuse me within the formation.
    Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The arrival of the Little Rope comes as this year marks the 30th anniversary of the band's formation.
    David Chiu, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Perhaps Harden's move to the east coast will be more of a brief jaunt than the formation of a new place to call home.
    Michael Shapiro, Chron, 2 May 2023
  • The amount of uranium that has changed to lead can tell us the amount of time that has passed since the zircon’s formation.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
  • The show features a fleet of 300 drones choreographed to create formations and patterns in the night sky.
    Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
  • In the Eocene, the formation of these clouds was enhanced by the positions of the Earth’s continents and mountains.
    Matt Simon, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
  • But the two older marine brigades, the 35th and 36th, are among Ukraine’s better formations.
    David Axe, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
  • That kind of mutation could kick off the formation of a new cancer.
    Alia Sajani and Angus Chen, STAT, 12 July 2024
  • Mortgages tend to follow the 10-year Treasury yield — and have moved out of the sweet spot that spurs housing formation.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Make sure to leave time to stroll the park’s Atlantic shoreline, which is marked by coquina rock formations and tidal pools.
    Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2023
  • Basically, the center of the Karuk world is right there on those formations, right on the river.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The forecast net cash requirement for 2024 is a record since the formation of the eurozone, the strategists say.
    WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This week’s sell-off could result in the formation of the right shoulder, completing the set-up of this bullish price pattern.
    David Keller, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
  • After the formation lap, the collective engine soundtracks reached a crescendo as the 20-car field fired off on the first of 57 laps.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 May 2023
  • The center forecast its formation chance at 60% over the next seven days.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
  • In 2016, the FARC fighters signed a peace deal with the government, a condition of which was the formation of the commission.
    Silvana Paternostro, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • At Stonefly Creek, which emerged from a glacier in the 1970s, pink salmon were counted just ten years after stream formation.
    Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
  • In 2022, two papers hinted at a timeline for the Milky Way’s disk formation.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Eagles came out in a swinging-gate formation and ran a jet sweep, with Pablo Jackson running left to right and just getting in the end zone for the win.
    John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Trick plays and a diversified mix of formations and motions kept the Red Wolves off-guard throughout the first half.
    Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Making apple cider vinegar leads to the formation of acetic acid.
    Elizabeth Barnes, Verywell Health, 24 May 2024
  • Behind them, a flock of pigeons flew in formation over the sparkling Arabian Sea.
    Flora Stubbs, Travel + Leisure, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Those bluegrass jam sessions morphed into the formation of the Bridge in 2001.
    Garret K. Woodward, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2024
  • As part of the grant, Eastwood ran a series of workshops that acted as building blocks for the formation of the collective that was formed in late 2020.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Nov. 2024

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