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How to use epiphany in a sentence

18 example sentences · noun

Epiphany means an illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder. Example: “It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.”

Examples of epiphany by meaning

nounAn illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.

  • It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.
  • But after spending most of my pocket money to get those developed, I had an epiphany: I was never going to be a professional photographer.2013, Chris Hadfield, chapter 11, in An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN
  • The logic of the standard biography—a formative event leads to an epiphany that creates the great man—doesn’t quite work when the greatness doesn’t have much to do with the man at all.2023 May 9, Jay Caspian Kang, “Tony Hsieh and the Emptiness of the Tech-Mogul Myth”, in The New Yorker

nounA manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.

  • The ithyphallic bird-man is the climactic, ecstatic, instantaneous male principle confronting the enormous, slow, bovine, and enduring principle of the eternal feminine in her epiphany as the bison.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London...

More sentences with epiphany

  • Seems crazy to some but it was like an epiphany to me.2020, Renée Hollis, “A Work in Progress”, in Struggle and Success: True Stories That Reveal the Depths of the Human Experience, volume 3…. From the entry cheesymite
  • The spark bird is a moment of epiphany, a conversion experience.2019, Ted Floyd, How to Know the Birds: The Art and Adventure of Birding, National Geographic Books, →ISBN, page 29. From the entry spark bird
  • In its most vulgarized and solipsistic state, epiphany is what currently is marketed as a God wink.2007, James B. Twitchell, Shopping for God, →ISBN, page 105. From the entry God wink
  • Empowerment is not a moment of epiphany.2006, Sunil Bharti Mittal, “The Corporate Sector Must Turn Around Agriculture”, in India Empowered: Change Agents Speak on an Idea whose…. From the entry agribusiness
  • It came to them as an epiphany.1984, Richard Setlowe, The Haunting of Suzanna Blackwell: A Novel, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 272. From the entry rabid
  • Here, Plato uses the traditional Greek notion of divine epiphany, in which a god could appear in a variety of bodies, including heavenly bodies.2021, Andrea Nightingale, Philosophy and Religion in Plato's Dialogues, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 264. From the entry hyperdivine
  • Breton insisted that the collective endeavor to compose an exquisite corpse leads to a pool of epiphanies, analogies, connections that would have been impossible otherwise.2019, Kate Haanzalik, Nathalie Virgintino, editors, Exquisite Corpse: Studio Art-Based Writing Practices in the Academy, Parlor Press LLC…. From the entry exquisite corpse
  • Since then I'd grown into my own, and this fist-chucking malcontent would topsyturn the whole enterprise if I let him, and thereby dawned my epiphany.2017, Daniel Kraus, The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch, volume 2, page 332. From the entry topsyturn
  • He said he had not had one big epiphany he would start one of the most successful business consultancy firms in the world, he only had small epiphanettes.2019 September 23, Ethan Crowell, “https://learnandlead.medium.com/epiphany-of-epiphanette-e739804c50e7] Epiphany of Epiphanette”, in Medium. From the entry epiphanette
  • They excitedly departed for the motherland only to relive Okonkwo's post-exile epiphany: a noteworthy and implicitly parabolic moment whose resonances of African diasporal experience are unmistakable.2008, Christopher N. Okonkwo, “Binary Nativity, Subjectivity, and the Wages of (In)Fidelity to ‘Origins’: The Between”, in A Spirit of…. From the entry diasporal
  • All at once, an epiphany of sorts, his wangtooth roving through the binding caught upon a manuscript fragment which to all appearances is the missing conclusion of the Hous.1976, Bartlett Jere Whiting, Respectfully and Finally Submitted. From the entry wangtooth
  • Creating the perfect mixture of sand and water for our man-made Cinderellaesque castle, I looked up at the expanse of water before me and had one of those epiphany moments.2013, Fred Meadows, Reforming the Broken Heart of Leadership. From the entry Cinderellaesque
  • Yet the whole is quiet, self-contained, pure unreflecting epiphany; and this pure epiphany in turn embodies the character and quite unmistakably, though indemonstrably, the destiny which belongs to the character.2008, Diana Glenn, Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy, page 158. From the entry indemonstrably
  • MY epiphany came when I told a friend I was going to a chamber music concert, and she — well-educated, well-heeled, operagoing — made a throwing-up gesture into her hand.2007 June 24, Anne Midgette, “Music That Thinks Outside the Chamber”, in New York Times. From the entry operagoing

Meaning of epiphany

  1. noun An illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.
  2. noun A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.

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Questions about epiphany in a sentence

How do you use epiphany in a sentence?
Epiphany is used as a noun. For example: “It came to her in an epiphany what her life's work was to be.”
What is a short sentence with epiphany?
“Empowerment is not a moment of epiphany.”
What does epiphany mean?
Epiphany means an illuminating realization or discovery, often resulting in a personal feeling of elation, awe, or wonder.

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