How to Use momentous in a Sentence

momentous

adjective
  • My college graduation was a momentous day in my life.
  • The date, 1987, was on the eve of some of the most momentous changes in world history.
    Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That quickly turned to momentous cheers for the Hoosiers.
    Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Ressler added that the business has gone through momentous changes in the past few decades.
    Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Getting that green light was the most momentous thing to me.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2024
  • But the fate of the state’s most momentous AI bill to date is yet to be determined.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This was a momentous year for business at the Supreme Court.
    John Quinn, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The group broke up less than a year after this momentous show.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
  • But just the fact that Simmons played in the game Wednesday was momentous.
    Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • Did the loss of your father at such a momentous time in your life affect you?
    Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The third week of March 2018 was a momentous one for the Reinhart-Bell family.
    Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Yet for all the changes, the program’s expansion to older adults may have been the most momentous.
    Kaiser Health News, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • September is a momentous month that marks both back-to-school and a return to the runways.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • She’d been born—that Sunday-morning call had come—in the momentous year 2000.
    Graham Swift, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024
  • This is a momentous year for both the Gantt center and Bonita Buford.
    Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
  • This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
    Nick Sargen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To her, Capri is a place that full of memories of momentous childhood firsts.
    Irene Kim, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the clip, May apologized for not being with the team on the momentous occasion.
    Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The next 12 months or so should also be pretty momentous for Comey.
    Izzy Grinspan, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Sep. 2023
  • That entire visit on Williams’ home turf proved momentous for the Bears.
    Dan Wiederer, Chicago Tribune, 28 July 2024
  • Relative to where things stood a couple of months ago, the change seems momentous.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • What’s more, King’s honor couldn’t have come at a more momentous time for the business of women’s sports.
    Liz Elting, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Soon came one of the most momentous decisions in the city’s history.
    Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 8 June 2023
  • As such, this comeback doesn’t just mark a momentous occasion for the band.
    Sofia Viera, refinery29.com, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At this point, though, any advance at all feels momentous.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2023
  • This year, the state of Israel marks its 75th birthday, a momentous occasion for Israelis and Jews around the world.
    Rabbi David Baum, Sun Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Rand said the meeting of the two vessels is a momentous occasion.
    Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 29 July 2022
  • Sharing final hugs still didn’t strike the momentous cord.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
  • Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974.
    Donald C. Johanson, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • But the momentous occasion ended in tragedy when hours later, just before 9 p.m., Greensboro police responded to the scene on a report of a shooting.
    Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 25 Oct. 2024

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