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
• James gets his redemptive moment at the end of the episode.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2024
• The win was redemptive for West Hills (15-6), a third-year program.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024
• There is a sad but redemptive end to the story of Yuri Boyka.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• The long shot of Esti in orgasm, aimed at her face and arching neck, feels like the movie’s redemptive core.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
• He was taken with the song’s redemptive love story and tucked it away, hoping for the right time to record it.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 May 2024
• At the time, this looked like a redemptive, healing moment for Jaime.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 12 July 2017
• 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
• One of the beauties of all sports is a redemptive storyline.
  — Brent Zwerneman, Houston Chronicle, 30 Oct. 2017
• The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force that will bring new light to this dark city.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
• The ending of the film, then, may be perversely redemptive.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2023
• The notion of work as a redemptive force is central to Bannon’s thinking, as well as to his own habits.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
• But no matter, on Thursday there was a fire and joy in her set that proved how redemptive music can still be in the wake of such a loss.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• 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
• But Tiger has also taken a redemptive road along the way, trying to heal mind body and spirit.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• 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
• There is also a redemptive quality to the family discussions.
  — Matt Viser, Washington Post, 20 July 2024
• Biden was able to burnish his legacy as a world leader with keen diplomatic skills in the twilight of his long political career, a redemptive and validating moment for a man essentially being forced aside.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024