How to Use epochal in a Sentence

epochal

adjective

• Here’s the story of the epochal storms and floods of 1938.
  — Patt Morrisoncolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• The news ricocheted around the world with an epochal force.
  — Susan J. Wolfson, The Atlantic, 18 June 2022
• And the run itself to that epochal late spring Wednesday night lives on.
  — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 19 June 2017
• But on the right, Thomas has come to be regarded as an epochal justice.
  — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
• In missing this, Nussbaum succumbs to the spell of Churchill’s epochal speeches of 1940.
  — Priya Satia, The New Republic, 20 May 2022
• It’s the great post-1968 movie (with reference not to the calendar year but to the epochal events in France and the young people marked by them).
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
• There have been 1,211 men who played for Cleveland during this epochal wait.
  — SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• Shay's lone presence is all the more poignant as the number of survivors of the epochal battle dwindles.
  — Sylvie Corbet, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
• Shay’s lone presence is all the more poignant as the number of survivors of the epochal battle dwindles.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
• But that's still going to tell us a whole lot more about the aftermath of this epochal impact.
  — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
• That sale, 10 years ago this weekend, is an epochal moment in the explosive growth of the Premier League.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2018
• To Seid, that meant looking for ways to place financial bets that had the potential to make epochal change.
  — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2022
• This epochal shift can be seen in the national debates over slavery.
  — Eli Cook, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
• Then the drama turns to high tragedy when, in 1995, Rabin is cut down by a lone gunman opposed to the Oslo Accords and the prospects of epochal peace die with him.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Jan. 2021
• The years during which Albinati comes of age are years of epochal change for Italy, for Catholicism, for ideals of manhood.
  — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• At least, not like other epochal companies of the internet age, such as Meta and Google.
  — Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2023
• Just wait, counter the crypto faithful, who contend an epochal breakthrough is around the corner.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• And the epochal stakes of that quest mean the West's condemnations are unlikely to ring very loudly in Beijing.
  — Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu, CNN, 30 June 2020
• But in many ways, 9/11 — and the epochal conflagration that followed — feels distant.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
• The virus has upset the human microbiome in an epochal act of strategic surprise.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 May 2020
• And with our epochal rains, some of these old bodies have risen to assert themselves again, which sounds like something out of H.P. Lovecraft.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2023
• Not, as was often prophesied, the most epochal election.
  — Allen C. Guelzo, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2020
• That revolution is turning out to be as epochal as the one triggered by the invention of the printing press.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2013
• The blank tone, angry beeping, and whirring static that comprised the epochal dial-up sound will forever haunt kids who lived through the '90s.
  — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2020
• Precipitation was 80% of average — not bad in the midst of an epochal drought.
  — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
• The world is falling apart, layoffs and food lines are mounting, and so much about the epochal pandemic remains unknown.
  — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
• When the world was hit by its next epochal crisis, Merkel had learned the importance of clear and frank communication.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• The Manson murders have been hailed as epochal: the needle scratch to the 1960s soundtrack of peace, love and mellow vibes that brought the idealistic era to a screeching halt.
  — Stephen Phillips, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• There is nothing to do with a day except to live it, a great poet wrote, and there may be nothing to do with an epochal year except to remember it.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
• These epochal events have always hovered on the edge of the historian Robert Darnton’s concerns.
  — Lynn Hunt, The New York Review of Books, 15 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024