How to Use initiation in a Sentence

initiation

noun

• Before the initiation that year, the girls went to Gearhart for a night in June.
  — OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
• Last month, Auburn's board of trustees approved the initiation of a project for a new videoboard in the North end zone.
  — James Crepea, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• The ad goes on to read that women can join for $20 a month with no initiation fee.
  — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
• So that’s part of it, is just working on the initiation and who to collect.
  — Holly Otterbein, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
• For instance, ask the gym to give you a free trial month or waive the initiation fee.
  — @nerdwallet, OregonLive.com, 9 June 2017
• Police are not aware of any video that captures the initiation of the fight between the two men.
  — Megan Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
• There was the one about a gang initiation in Little Rock.
  — Eula Calahan, Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2023
• The journey is arguably akin to an initiation; the road is rough, but the reward is sweet.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2023
• At the initiation of a fight, both flyers must drop their carryons so as not to use them as a weapon.
  — Mark Gomez, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
• The Big Ten had set a deadline of Wednesday for the initiation of rapid testing.
  — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 30 Sep. 2020
• The initiation fees have also aroused the ire of some members leaving the Trump clubs.
  — Eric Lipton, Steve Eder and Ben Protess, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• At times, such as in 2012, Trump waived the initiation fee entirely to draw in new blood.
  — Rob Crilly, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2021
• The weak wait for the strong—their motion is all response, no initiation.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
• The nagging is most fierce on the days when the sounds of the traditional drums echo through Port Loko for an initiation.
  — New York Times, 14 June 2022
• As is the case in football these days, Bony was made to perform an initiation song.
  — SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• The initiation is the first among firms tracked by Bloomberg since shares started trading last week.
  — Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
• The Grand Tour had a sense of initiation and ritual; young men and women were leaving home for the first time.
  — Smithsonian, 23 June 2017
• The third concern is that prior to the initiation of phase 2, funds utilized for phase 1 would have to be repaid.
  — al, 27 Apr. 2021
• The 20-year-old, nearly 7-foot-4 rookie’s initiation to the NBA world has drawn rave reviews in many ways.
  — Tim Reynolds, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
• Selmont did not respond to a query about the gang initiation claim.
  — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• The toon movie turns on one keenie’s life story from initiation to old age, says Bonet.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
• The first candidate for initiation this year was a teenager whose face had been smeared with mud and the dregs of homemade beer.
  — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
• The story was that it had been swiped by other players as a rookie initiation for the Colts star.
  — Mike Klingaman, baltimoresun.com, 28 Sep. 2017
• Sam Bankman-Fried: The crypto kid had a tough initiation to the world of big-money politics.
  — Dan Alexander, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
• Without that initiation, there’s no call to be made there.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
• According to the church, baptism is the first of three sacraments of initiation.
  — Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2022
• But the people who went through the embarrassing initiation liked the group more and were more eager to join it than the control group.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2021
• Has the age of smoking initiation come down more rapidly for women than for men?
  — Susan Scutti, CNN, 24 May 2018
• Freedom refers to the absence of the initiation of physical force, the absence of compulsion and coercion.
  — Brian P Simpson, Orange County Register, 7 Jan. 2025
• Since these deal initiations typically take six to nine months to finalize, a surge of new deal announcements is expected to unfold in the first half of 2025.
  — Rusty Wiley, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 22 Feb 2025