How to Use redemptive in a Sentence

redemptive

adjective

• The win was redemptive after French and Schrantz lost in the semis last year as the No. 1 seed.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2022
• There is a sad but redemptive end to the story of Yuri Boyka.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• But true to form, the Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop star doesn’t approach it in an easy redemptive arc.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
• Then, the guys discuss the redemptive stories of Jeff Okudah and Emoni Bates.
  — Kirkland Crawford, Detroit Free Press, 17 Nov. 2022
• Many whites have been more than happy to sit back and allow black people to do all the redemptive work.
  — Dahleen Glanton, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
• This is a show that shows us sometimes at our worst, but at the same time there’s a redemptive undertone.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2019
• The ending of the film, then, may be perversely redemptive.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• The goal shattered the redemptive arc for a Red Stars team plagued with injuries and challenges throughout the 2021 season.
  — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2021
• This is a redemptive movement, rooted deeply in love and justice and truth.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• The result was one of the best redemptive seasons in sports history.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• The rawness of Moonlight’s pain and the thrill of its redemptive power are undiminished.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2021
• While two years before he was charged with the battery of a pregnant woman, many saw redemptive changes in the rapper in the final months of his life.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 5 May 2022
• In what will mark his final game in this rivalry, Dicker would love to go out with some sort of redemptive kick.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Oct. 2021
• And much like the heel is the extremity of the body, ekev can also refer to the redemptive period that will come at the end of days (ikveta d’meshicha).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 15 Aug. 2022
• Liz [Banks] always talks about the redemptive aspects of this story.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• Why are most of us acting as if there’s no such thing as redemptive suffering?
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 9 Mar. 2020
• And his saga — at least its first part — sanctifies the joy of escape as an act of redemptive moral rebellion.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• The redemptive half-season that just aired set the stage, quite stunningly, for a dark reckoning.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• And much like the heel is the extremity of the body, ekev can also refer to the redemptive period that will come at the end of days (acharit ha-yamim).
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Aug. 2020
• For Chad Beebe, the redemptive journey from scapegoat to hero took a matter of minutes Sunday.
  — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 29 Nov. 2020
• What’s redemptive about the movies, for Chazelle, isn’t so much the experience of viewing them but the benefits of making them.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2022
• Perhaps, as others had supposed, Trevor Matthews was on the same redemptive path as Trevor Nelson.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• Both men emphasize the redemptive nature of this chapter in their lives.
  — Francine Kiefer, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2021
• At the same Chicago listening party, Kanye donned a fire suit and was lit ablaze in what would seem to be an image of redemptive purging.
  — George Messenger, National Review, 5 Sep. 2021
• And because Christ’s redemptive work is finished, God can rightly grant it.
  — Graham Hillard, National Review, 22 July 2019
• The regret is obvious: There is no longer a chance for a final, redemptive chapter.
  — Zeynep Tufekci, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
• Getting the victory was redemptive in a season that saw the Tigers lose several close games.
  — Nubyjas Wilborn | , al, 17 Mar. 2023
• Is there any doubt that such a return will happen after a little bit of time and a redemptive interview or two?
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Feb. 2021
• There is a kind of joy, too, that is redemptive, restorative—resurrection joy.
  — Popular Science, 9 Oct. 2020
• All this to say, literally nothing is beyond the redemptive power of love in this show.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024