How to Use formation in a Sentence

formation

noun

• The team ran on the field and lined up in a punt formation.
• The book explains the formation of the planets.
• The soldiers were marching in formation.
• The mixtape goes all the way back to the 1970s and the early formation of hip hop.
  — Orlando Mendiola, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• Our art started in the sand, the rocks, the very formation of Australia.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 27 Sep. 2023
• Sporting has mixed up its formations in a pinch in the past.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2024
• So the back has got to be able to play excuse me within the formation.
  — Sportsday Staff, Dallas News, 18 Apr. 2023
• With the strength of the Bengal formation to the left, Bills linebacker Milano lines up to that side.
  — Lance Reisland, cleveland, 28 Jan. 2023
• The arrival of the Little Rope comes as this year marks the 30th anniversary of the band's formation.
  — David Chiu, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps Harden's move to the east coast will be more of a brief jaunt than the formation of a new place to call home.
  — Michael Shapiro, Chron, 2 May 2023
• The amount of uranium that has changed to lead can tell us the amount of time that has passed since the zircon’s formation.
  — Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 13 Sep. 2024
• The show features a fleet of 300 drones choreographed to create formations and patterns in the night sky.
  — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• In the Eocene, the formation of these clouds was enhanced by the positions of the Earth’s continents and mountains.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 29 Nov. 2023
• But the two older marine brigades, the 35th and 36th, are among Ukraine’s better formations.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2023
• That kind of mutation could kick off the formation of a new cancer.
  — Alia Sajani and Angus Chen, STAT, 12 July 2024
• Mortgages tend to follow the 10-year Treasury yield — and have moved out of the sweet spot that spurs housing formation.
  — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2024
• Make sure to leave time to stroll the park’s Atlantic shoreline, which is marked by coquina rock formations and tidal pools.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 4 Nov. 2023
• Some might consider a point in that stage of Earth’s formation to be our planet’s birth.
  — Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2023
• Basically, the center of the Karuk world is right there on those formations, right on the river.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The forecast net cash requirement for 2024 is a record since the formation of the eurozone, the strategists say.
  — WSJ, 17 Nov. 2023
• This week’s sell-off could result in the formation of the right shoulder, completing the set-up of this bullish price pattern.
  — David Keller, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2024
• After the formation lap, the collective engine soundtracks reached a crescendo as the 20-car field fired off on the first of 57 laps.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 8 May 2023
• The center forecast its formation chance at 60% over the next seven days.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2024
• In 2016, the FARC fighters signed a peace deal with the government, a condition of which was the formation of the commission.
  — Silvana Paternostro, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• At Stonefly Creek, which emerged from a glacier in the 1970s, pink salmon were counted just ten years after stream formation.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023
• In 2022, two papers hinted at a timeline for the Milky Way’s disk formation.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Mar. 2023
• The Eagles came out in a swinging-gate formation and ran a jet sweep, with Pablo Jackson running left to right and just getting in the end zone for the win.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Trick plays and a diversified mix of formations and motions kept the Red Wolves off-guard throughout the first half.
  — Mike Harley, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
• His 2-yard touchdown run out of a wildcat formation with 8:37 remaining in the second quarter got the Knights their first points.
  — Matt Murschel, Orlando Sentinel, 23 Nov. 2024
• The cloud is an abundant source of observations and insights for astronomers studying the formation and evolution of young stars.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 26 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024