How to Use revolutionary in a Sentence

revolutionary

1 of 2 adjective

• There's this strong sense of African-ness in her, the spirit of a liberator and a revolutionary runs through Agatha.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2023
• Amid all this is the percolation of revolutionary talk, which Bologne tries to skirt at first.
  — Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
• That was pretty revolutionary at the time, and it hasn’t really been touched on enough.
  — Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
• The once revolutionary fake meat purveyor can’t seem to outrun the looming specter of its own demise.
  — Marnie Shure / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• The congregation snacked on chocolate, sausages, and bread: the popcorn of the revolutionary age.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
• That’s not the case for Microsoft and Google, which have scrambled to lead the pack on the revolutionary technology.
  — Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• The team say that the ability to analyze the full sound fields produced by whales is revolutionary.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• The aftershocks of the Great War continue to resonate, in part due to the revolutionary ways the conflict was depicted in art and media.
  — Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
• This level of frankness was nearly revolutionary at the time, and so the book was treasured as tweener samizdat.
  — Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• The question addressed by the revolutionary government was the emancipation of the Jews.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of early hip-hop.
  — Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2023
• Advertisement The concert will celebrate the enduring impact of bebop, the revolutionary jazz style that rose to prominence in the first half of the 1940s.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
• The leaders of the revolutionary movement were known for wearing zoot suit-style outfits and mixing all kinds of genres, which would later play a role in La Maldita Vecindad blend of rock, ska, and folk sounds.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• Modern riding was born with the influence of Tom Sims and Jake Burton in the late 1970s, which has led to a revolutionary movement that is today’s snowboarding scene.
  — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
• But the revolutionary force of nature coursing through teenage bodies that refuse to be suppressed is powerfully brought to life.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• The burden is, and always has been, on independent labels and artists to keep the torch of balance burning to embrace revolutionary messages in our craft.
  — Spin Staff, Spin, 12 Sep. 2023
• And his company, Melges Boatworks, produced the revolutionary Melges 24, the first of a genre of sport-sailboats that could double the speeds of its predecessors and which has become a favorite of top sailors.
  — Chris Museler, New York Times, 22 May 2023
• All fascinating stuff but not much that’s revolutionary, in my humble opinion; at least, not at this stage.
  — Greg Petro, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• Some of the moves seem obvious, most are very clever, and all mark a return to ancient methods that have suddenly become revolutionary.
  — John Anderson, wsj.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• Those revolutionary times shook something loose in her.
  — Rooksana Hossenally, Saveur, 12 July 2023
• The cautionary voices of those like Shoshana are overwhelmed by the revolutionary fervor of the Irgun, who believe the land of Israel can only be built by violence.
  — Alissa Simon, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
• Today, a look at the latest revolutionary treatments for cancer, plus are wages cooling?, and charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin in the Halyna Hutchins shooting.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
• The grades are steep, as much as 9 percent, so the company used Shay locomotives, a revolutionary design that relies on geared wheels and which improves the traction.
  — Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
• As a would-be revolutionary, planting bombs and staging attacks on Nazi targets.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
• But in his more-than-decade-long tenure, the company just hasn’t brought to market a revolutionary product on par with those of his legendary predecessor Steve Jobs, those being, of course, the iPod and iPhone.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
• There’s no singing or dancing in the moment, and no grand speeches being made about Rydell’s social ills or revolutionary potential, which is just as well.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
• Given that the first edition iPhone 4GB was only sold for two months, despite being so revolutionary, it’s become quite the collector’s item.
  — Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
• Bremerton was as revolutionary for its own area of law as Dobbs was for reproductive rights.
  — Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2024
• All of these were developed from the same groundbreaking mRNA technology that made the covid-19 vaccine so revolutionary.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 27 Mar. 2024
• By the early 1950s, Norton Healthcare had taken yet another revolutionary step, creating a health care unit focused on alcoholism and treating it as a disease — something that wouldn't become a conventional part of health care for a few more decades.
  — Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 4 Apr. 2024

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revolutionary

2 of 2 noun

• In 1976, the artist travels to Tehran to take Polaroids of the Shah of Iran’s wife but encounters a young revolutionary.
  — Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2022
• But who's to say there wasn't maybe a little working-for-the-weekend revolutionary in him?
  — Trey Williams, Fortune, 1 July 2022
• FoxNews Channel's Ben Shapiro (@benshaprio) was among those who called out the revolutionary.
  — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• The next four years [of story\ are not about becoming a revolutionary.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
• But the notion of Amtrak Joe as a policy revolutionary is still a stretch—to my mind, at least.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
• What most beguiles us today is the sense that a proud revolutionary lurked beneath the winsome savage, the snowy smile.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
• One such unicorn was Mary Quant, the fashion revolutionary who died this week aged 93.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
• But a chance meeting with a friend and former high school classmate who worked for Stan Lee, the comic book revolutionary, led to his first big break.
  — Derrick Bryson Taylor, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• The image of Armstrong the musical revolutionary was long at war with the image of Armstrong the Uncle Tom.
  — Wsj Arts, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
• That was a huge lesson from Lee Marvin, who wasn’t a revolutionary.
  — Vulture, 26 May 2023
• The documentary chronicles the life of the revolutionary and made its New York City premiere in Harlem last year.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Aug. 2023
• The next four years [of story] are not about becoming a revolutionary.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
• Seth Rogen is our shoo-in for the Argentinean revolutionary, of course.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• As foreign tourists flock to places like Casablanca in search of drugs and free love, former revolutionaries get caught up in the pursuit of money and power.
  — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
• By this measure, George Stevens Jr. is a revolutionary in the guise of a movie-industry insider.
  — Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 21 July 2022
• The group’s leader, Yasir Arafat, was welcomed in Tehran within days after the revolutionaries took charge.
  — Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
• In Thuso Mbedu's mind, the next chapter would see Cora stepping into her role as a leader and a revolutionary.
  — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 25 May 2021
• Logan all but laughs in Kendall’s face, calling himself a revolutionary and saying there are things his son doesn’t understand about the world.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Dec. 2021
• Nguyen, known as Madame Binh, was a bona-fide communist revolutionary.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
• Was Sade a revolutionary, working to expose the rotten core of the aristocracy into which he was born?
  — WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
• Tamil guerrillas set off street bombs in Colombo while the corpses of JVP revolutionaries floated down rivers.
  — Anjum Hasan, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• And that comes from Amílcar Cabral—a philosopher and an organizer and a revolutionary.
  — Melissa Alexander, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021
• Protest was so much in his blood, John named his only son after the Argentine revolutionary, Che Guevara.
  — Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
• Back then, the new gizmo would have been considered nothing short of revolutionary.
  — Leslie Katz, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Though less a revolutionary than Mao, Xi rules with a similarly firm grip on power.
  — Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
• His parents also agreed to help hide the revolutionary, but after he was caught, they were wanted by the authorities.
  — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
• The former revolutionary lived a fairly long and quiet life thereafter, although her final years were marred by tragedy.
  — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2021
• The Failure of the Revolutionaries The socialist revolutionaries were the first of the factions to fail.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
• The documentary chronicles the life of the revolutionary and is making its New York City premiere today in Harlem.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Aug. 2022
• Black theologians like the Rev. Albert Cleage have depicted Jesus as a man of color and a revolutionary.
  — John Blake, CNN, 31 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024