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 if there was something of loss and epiphany at the same time.
    — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Strauss has a full opera to prepare you for this epiphany.
    — Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2023
  • With this epiphany came a sort of release and a strange calmness.
    — Rachel Deloache Williams, The Hive, 13 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
  • Life began again behind bars with an epiphany in the prison yard.
    — Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
  • This one has a tang and texture and rare sense of everyday epiphany.
    — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Those words led to an immediate epiphany for the singer.
    — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
  • In that instant, an epiphany struck like a lightning bolt.
    — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 17 July 2023
  • The truth is that Hageman didn't have some sort of epiphany about Trump.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Much of his epiphany was seen through improvements in high-speed video.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Perhaps there’s a reader who will find epiphany in this.
    — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 23 June 2020
  • Your mileage may vary on whether this epiphany is heartwarming or eerie.
    — Sheon Han, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2021
  • There was no epiphany, just dirt, the vast curtain between this realm and the other.
    — Aria Aber, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • But old-man fist-shaking leads to a touching epiphany this time.
    — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
  • The word epiphany itself doesn’t have anything to do with gift-giving.
    — Time, 6 Jan. 2023
  • This is a defense cut, and not from an epiphany of fiscal restraint.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023
  • The hermit, enmeshed in solitude for long enough, has an epiphany.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But looking at the classic Porsche gave Bradley an epiphany.
    — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2021
  • Catharsis leads, with a theatrical turn of events, to epiphany.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Nature Pagoda may not seem at first much like a place for clay pot rice epiphany.
    — Jonathan Gold, latimes.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • For me, there was no epiphany, no massive march or lightning bolt that told me now was my time to run.
    — Morgan Zegers, refinery29.com, 22 June 2018
  • Tom Izzo woke up one night recently and had an epiphany.
    — Chris Solari, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2021
  • There are some key differences between these epiphany tales.
    — Phoebe Maltz Bovy, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Do’s epiphany came during his first trip to Vietnam, about eight years ago.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2022
  • Out of that slowdown, though, has come another epiphany.
    — Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Within just a few years, though, Ms. Gump had an epiphany.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2018
  • And then in the mid-’90s, when web search became a thing, there was this epiphany.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 19 May 2021
  • 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
  • Almost 40 years later, that epiphany held true for me, too.
    — Ashley Mateo, Esquire, 18 June 2017

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