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.
• Herr was waiting for him at the top, where the rock formations were bleached and pocked with fossils.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
• Brilliant-blue regions of active star formation sparkle through the dust.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
• Make sure to get both the male and female varieties to ensure berry formation.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
• The ensuing damage causes the formation of small blood clots, known as micro-clots.
  — Richard Marfuggi, STAT, 22 Dec. 2022
• Larry Miles scores on a 5-yard touchdown run from the Wildcat formation for Jones.
  — Staff Reports, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2024
• The team was picked using the 4-3-3 formation preferred by most nations at this World Cup.
  — Steve Douglas, ajc, 18 Dec. 2022
• The chic hotels here juxtapose soft white pillows with hair-raising mountain edges, while the drive through this bizarre rock formation isn't for the faint-hearted.
  — Maria Pasquale, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
• At the same time, more than five million new businesses were started, a remarkable number after years of declining small business formation.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2022
• Importance Of The Grading One aspect that might have caught your eye is step #2, grader formation.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Dec. 2024
• Weight-bearing exercise stimulates bone formation throughout life.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2023
• Second timeout, no change. BYU saw the same formation every try, giving it more than enough time to prepare and balance its formation.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• The coalition’s formation puts the country on course for a constitutional showdown between the government and the judiciary.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 21 Dec. 2022
• 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
• With the strength of the Bengal formation to the left, Bills linebacker Milano lines up to that side.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 28 Jan. 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
• Some might consider a point in that stage of Earth’s formation to be our planet’s birth.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024