How to Use epiphany in a Sentence

epiphany

noun
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  • Seeing her father again when she was an adult was an epiphany that changed her whole view of her childhood.
  • As Venus and Uranus clash, an epiphany transforms your beliefs.
    — USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2024
  • This epiphany led me on a Goldilocks-esque journey to find a handbag that was just right.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 26 June 2024
  • Likewise, an idea or epiphany could strike like lightning, lighting the way to your next big success.
    — Tarot.com, Hartford Courant, 1 Mar. 2024
  • There follows a sugary epiphany in which Moses stands up to the officer and so purges him of evil.
    — Terry Teaxhout, WSJ, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Some had a professor or mentor spark an epiphany that led to fulfilling careers.
    — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2021
  • No particular moment of epiphany comes for Sherrell, on or off the page.
    — David S. Wallace, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The scouts nearly won out, but MacPhail admitted to having an epiphany.
    — Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • As part of his epiphany, Acosta decides to move to Los Angeles.
    — Abby Aguirre, The New Yorker, 13 July 2021
  • Despite a few epiphanies, the season declines to resolve its biggest conflicts.
    — Judy Berman, TIME, 27 June 2024
  • The psychologist Gillian Sandstrom had a similar epiphany about them about a decade ago.
    — Joe Keohane, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • One day at work, Torrance Patrick, a barber in Peachtree Corners, had an epiphany that would change his life.
    — Nedra Rhone, ajc, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Coming of age shows seem to be popping up everywhere, much to my delight, as early adolescence is ripe with humor, warmth and epiphany.
    — Michelle Icard, CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
  • It's brilliantly patterned, symmetrical interiors are the perfect place to have an epiphany when your train breaks down.
    — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Some of you may have had an epiphany recently about what life has been trying to teach you; after learning this lesson, you will be freed from the cycle of pain that has followed you around for quite some time.
    — Meghan Ros, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2021
  • In the early 1990s, after seeing a poster that include the photo with his father cropped out, Shuba had an epiphany.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 17 July 2021
  • The epiphany came from an image, captured by an electron microscope, of fungal hyphae strangling a nematode that was attacking a tomato root.
    — New York Times, 28 July 2021
  • It’s the fact that this seemingly irredeemable character, David, could come around to finding his own humanity, and that the epiphany still might not be enough to save him.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 11 Sep. 2021
  • These capture the artistic curiosity and sheer talent of a child who was fascinated by art and religion, until an epiphany led him to devote his life to music.
    — Jane Levere, Forbes, 7 July 2021
  • After a quarter-century of helplessly watching the collapse of Europe’s traditional wine culture, the wine world’s best minds had an epiphany.
    — New York Times, 29 Aug. 2021
  • As if there was something of loss and epiphany at the same time.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • One yearns for the breakthrough, the epiphany, the point, that will make sense of it all, and thus cure it.
    — Lauren Oyler, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2024
  • And then in the mid-’90s, when web search became a thing, there was this epiphany.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 May 2021
  • The truth is that Hageman didn't have some sort of epiphany about Trump.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Strauss has a full opera to prepare you for this epiphany.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • And then, like an epiphany from the saints, a glint of yellow caught my eye.
    — Lisa Donovan, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • With this epiphany came a sort of release and a strange calmness.
    — Rachel Deloache Williams, The Hive, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Within just a few years, though, Ms. Gump had an epiphany.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Boyce soon had his own epiphany moment on a city street en route to the subway.
    — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
  • The 29-year-old researcher said his work was sparked by an epiphany in his life a few years ago.
    — Author: William Wan, Anchorage Daily News, 18 June 2018

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