How to Use epiphany in a Sentence

epiphany

noun

• Seeing her father again when she was an adult was an epiphany that changed her whole view of her childhood.
• Perhaps your buddies have had an epiphany through the use of certain ceremonies.
  — Sean Illing, Vox, 11 Oct. 2024
• Then someone had a minor, though highly lucrative, epiphany.
  — David Bloom, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Five years into the project, in 2017, Yu had an epiphany.
  — Patrick J. Kiger, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 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
• Like a modern-day Prometheus, Maslow stole epiphany from the gods and gave it to mortals.
  — David G. Allan, CNN, 3 May 2018
• After all this time, Gov. Hochul wakes up on June 5 and has an epiphany.
  — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 June 2024
• Boyce soon had his own epiphany moment on a city street en route to the subway.
  — Susan Miller, USA TODAY, 4 June 2019
• That was an epiphany about what good writing might be, at least in my case.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 27 June 2024
• 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
• By 2013, Finkelstein had an epiphany: the face of the enemy should be George Soros.
  — Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 June 2022
• Don Draper’s newly sober, bizarre epiphany at the end of Mad Men that soft drinks can unite the world.
  — Mike Scalise, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 May 2023
• There was no epiphany, just dirt, the vast curtain between this realm and the other.
  — Aria Aber, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• But looking at the classic Porsche gave Bradley an epiphany.
  — Laura Burstein, Robb Report, 3 Dec. 2021
• In that instant, an epiphany struck like a lightning bolt.
  — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• Life began again behind bars with an epiphany in the prison yard.
  — Michael M. Phillips and Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• That was a pivotal moment for Tim — an epiphany for him.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
• But six months after the workshop, Poindexter had an epiphany: The prints didn’t need to be small.
  — Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
• But old-man fist-shaking leads to a touching epiphany this time.
  — Washington Post, 10 May 2021
• In one of the show’s later seasons, Donaghy has an epiphany.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• This one has a tang and texture and rare sense of everyday epiphany.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Oct. 2022
• Much of his epiphany was seen through improvements in high-speed video.
  — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• The word epiphany itself doesn’t have anything to do with gift-giving.
  — Time, 6 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024