How to Use momentous in a Sentence

momentous

adjective

• My college graduation was a momentous day in my life.
• The date, 1987, was on the eve of some of the most momentous changes in world history.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• That quickly turned to momentous cheers for the Hoosiers.
  — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024
• Ressler added that the business has gone through momentous changes in the past few decades.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Getting that green light was the most momentous thing to me.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2024
• But the fate of the state’s most momentous AI bill to date is yet to be determined.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
• This was a momentous year for business at the Supreme Court.
  — John Quinn, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
• The group broke up less than a year after this momentous show.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
• But just the fact that Simmons played in the game Wednesday was momentous.
  — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
• For a large majority of us, the war years were the most momentous of our lives.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• Did the loss of your father at such a momentous time in your life affect you?
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024
• But the road out of the first round will provide a momentous challenge for a team that has struggled since the All-Star break.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
• The third week of March 2018 was a momentous one for the Reinhart-Bell family.
  — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Yet for all the changes, the program’s expansion to older adults may have been the most momentous.
  — Kaiser Health News, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
• September is a momentous month that marks both back-to-school and a return to the runways.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
• She’d been born—that Sunday-morning call had come—in the momentous year 2000.
  — Graham Swift, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024
• The Weeknd publicly joined the hordes of music lovers mourning the momentous loss of Quincy Jones.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
• This is a momentous year for both the Gantt center and Bonita Buford.
  — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
• This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
  — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
• To her, Capri is a place that full of memories of momentous childhood firsts.
  — Irene Kim, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
• In the clip, May apologized for not being with the team on the momentous occasion.
  — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
• The next 12 months or so should also be pretty momentous for Comey.
  — Izzy Grinspan, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Sep. 2023
• That entire visit on Williams’ home turf proved momentous for the Bears.
  — Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
• Relative to where things stood a couple of months ago, the change seems momentous.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• What’s more, King’s honor couldn’t have come at a more momentous time for the business of women’s sports.
  — Liz Elting, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• Soon came one of the most momentous decisions in the city’s history.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
• This was a momentous milestone at Mile High, and before the game, the nerves were palpable.
  — Michael Silver, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
• As such, this comeback doesn’t just mark a momentous occasion for the band.
  — Sofia Viera, refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• What’s a good way for a ragtag group of video-game heroes (or for a heroic rogue flying solo) to either get some respite from the action or gear up for a momentous narrative?
  — Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Jan. 2025
• For Justin Marks, the partnership represents a momentous occasion.
  — Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 16 Feb 2025