How to Use seminal in a Sentence

seminal

adjective

• That’s the name of a seminal D.C. punk band that played its last live show in 2002.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• The seminal chase scene veers through the mean streets of New York as hard-nosed Det.
  — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Fans can watch the men's final and seminal games on CBS.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• And for its seminal 20th season, the show is out to prove it's still got a few tricks up its sleeve.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 9 Sep. 2022
• But of course, the seminal moment for Ed is losing Shane, his son, at the end of the first season.
  — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
• Bansal is in a lot of ways a seminal example of an IVP founder.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• This year marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal Lau vs. Nichols Supreme Court case.
  — Allison Briceño, The Mercury News, 20 June 2024
• The two would join forces for Bat Out of Hell, the 1977 album would become both’s seminal work.
  — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 21 Jan. 2022
• The movie The Conjuring may go down as James Wan’s seminal work.
  — Declan Gallagher and Chris Bellamy, EW.com, 31 Oct. 2024
• The series, due to release in 2025, builds on the seminal franchise.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Oct. 2024
• At the recent Dior and Moschino shows, the eyes echoed Gucci’s seminal sooty-eyed Fall 1995 show.
  — Tia Williams, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
• The film is based on the seminal Mexican novel of the same name by Juan Rulfo.
  — Katcy Stephan, Variety, 10 May 2024
• The work completed over the 100 plus years while the studio has been active is seminal.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• Those seminal works brought baseball’s steroids era out of the shadows.
  — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
• The 2014 World Cup in Brazil had a chance to be Altidore’s seminal moment.
  — Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes, 31 July 2022
• Rarely seen but of seminal importance, Passing Through ranks near the top of the greatest jazz films.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• Works by these two seminal Modernist painters are on view through Oct. 2.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• From that seminal encounter, Martin hatched the idea for Vot-ER.
  — Kay Lazar, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Oct. 2022
• And it’s about a seminal event in the 20th century, and one that resonates today.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2022
• Flea points to a seminal moment in the band’s pre-history.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2022
• Song like the charging, clever title track fit nicely to the band’s seminal recordings.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• Gamers are more than eager to see a return to the pedigree of Telltale’s seminal performance in the 2010s.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
• The video starts off with information about the seminal ’80s band and their classic track.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 4 Aug. 2022
• Burton, 67, first found fame as Kunta Kinte in the seminal miniseries Roots.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• An Emmy for his role in the seminal 1977 TV miniseries Roots followed.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• Getting the five Toledo Catholic schools to work together and joining the Catholic League seemed like a seminal moment for the schools.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2022
• The seminal country rock band was formed in Los Angeles in 1971.
  — Kristina Wood, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2024
• That seminal doll was outfitted in hoop earrings, a short fro, and a red bodysuit.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• The award, of course, takes its name and inspiration from the seminal British filmmaker Derek Jarman.
  — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 25 Nov. 2024
• The trio took that basic plot and turned it into Airplane!, their seminal 1980 disaster comedy, which marked the first comedic role for Leslie Nielsen.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024