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How to use momentous in a sentence

26 example sentences · adjective

Momentous means outstanding in importance, of great consequence. Example: “What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.”

Examples of momentous by meaning

adjectiveOutstanding in importance, of great consequence.

  • What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.1902, Joseph Conrad, chapter 3, in The End of the Tether
  • The last train ran on December 31, 1932, almost unnoticed, for it coincided with the running of the last steam passenger train down the main line from London to Brighton, a much more momentous event.1952 December, R. C. Riley, “By Rail to Kemp Town”, in Railway Magazine, page 835

More sentences with momentous

  • From today’s perspective, this is a snapshot of a momentous event in English constitutional history.2020, Karolina M. Milewicz, Constitutionalizing World Politics: The Logic of Democratic Power and the Unintended Consequences of…. From the entry Carta
  • And that brings up another momentous 20th-century idea, sometimes called cybernetics, feedback, or control.2018, Steven Pinker, “Chapter 2: Entro, Evo, Info”, in Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Penguin…. From the entry cybernetics
  • One aspiration is to mark a particularly momentous year in American history.2018 January 1, Conor Friedersdorf, “Exploring 1968 and the Making of Modern America”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 01…. From the entry presentist
  • Something as momentous—as downright mollyfogging, ripsnorting, billy-o blazes as this—required something more.2008 January 7, Elaine Hatfield, Richard L. Rapson, Hijacked!, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN. From the entry mollyfogging
  • Similarly for mortuary arrangements, what is leftwise is more momentous than what is rightwise.2006, Arne Røkkum, Nature, ritual, and society in Japan's Ryukyu Islands, page 151. From the entry mortuary
  • It was a momentous event for the peoples of the western world.1950 March 4, John Evans, “Notes on News in Religion”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, volume CIX, number 54, Chicago, Ill., page 8. From the entry thruout
  • A sudden stillness came on them both, a sense of something momentous that must happen.1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIV, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers…. From the entry yieldingly
  • And, of course, on such momentous occasions as these, Manning was in his element.1918 May 9, Lytton Strachey, “[Cardinal Manning.] Chapter VII”, in Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold…. From the entry ramify
  • I realized at once that indescribable quiver in the air of momentous events.1916 January, Hugh Walpole, “The Forest”, in The Dark Forest, London: Martin Secker […], →OCLC, part II, page 245. From the entry realize
  • Here we are at what could be humankind's most momentous moment and we have picture-taking instruments that can't be relied on.2015, Inez Baranay, 7 Stories, 2 Novellas, page 45. From the entry unadvancement
  • The momentous term culturomics suggests the authors’ ambitious view of what can seem like an intellectual parlor game.2013 December 24, William Grimes, “Big Data Becomes a Mirror”, in New York Times. From the entry culturomics
  • And Nissenson describes momentous events in timid, unvivid terms, when they should reveal something about Schiff’s inner life.2007 April 22, Jennifer Senior, “Tabloid Queen”, in New York Times. From the entry unvivid
  • This makes the end of the century epochful and momentous.2003, William Sweet, Mark Spencer, Race, Gender, And Supremacy, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 209. From the entry epochful
  • Scotland: History of a Nation is one of many tomes we can expect in this momentous, millenniary and evolutionary times.1999 March 12, The Herald, Glasgow, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Oct 2025. From the entry millenniary
  • The Feng and Shan were probably the state rituals in premodern China imbued with the most momentous religious and political symbolism.[1994, Chen Jo-shui, “Empress Wu and Proto-Feminist Sentiments in T’ang China”, in Frederick P. Brandauer, Chün-chieh Huang, editors…. From the entry Mount Tai
  • A mysterious scene to me then—yet I scented that there was something momentous about it, though I could not tell what.1978, Lawrence Durrell, chapter 1, in Livia, London: Faber and Faber, page 48. From the entry scent
  • Why are all important or momentous things involving scrivenery always done on the back of an old envelope?1977, Flann O'Brien, The Hair of the Dogma: A Further Selection From 'Cruiskeen Lawn', London […]: Paladin Grafton Books, published 1989…. From the entry scrivenery
  • Every sound was sampled from a momentous historical recording-the snare drum was a recording of the shot that killed President Kennedy, and so on.2011 July, David Mitchell, quoting Brian Eno, “A Conversation with Brian Eno”, in The Believer, McSweeney's, →ISSN. From the entry nerdery
  • Across the centuries the fortunes of the two religions have risen and fallen in a sequence of momentous surges, pauses, and countersurges.1997, Samuel P. Huntington, The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. From the entry countersurge
  • Perhaps a more accurate description would be that this is a year for the churches to digest and absorb the momentous events of recent years.1970 June 20, Les Rodney, “Briefly …: A Baptist Credo, Methodist Golden Couples, Presbyterians & ‘Tongues’”, in Independent…. From the entry headliny
  • For me, Neon Indian's music conjures momentous feelings, memories, fantasies of makeouts that did and didn't happen, a state of eternal longing, the transcendence of linear time.2015 October 15, So Sad Today, “Fuck Music, Let's Talk About Feelings: An Interview with Neon Indian”, in VICE, archived from the original…. From the entry presh
  • Even with the nuance, the vote was a momentous step for a church that has been mired in intrafactional warfare over homosexuality for more than a decade.2009 July 16, Laurie Goodstein, “Episcopal Bishops Give Ground on Gay Marriage”, in New York Times. From the entry intrafactional
  • In any case, culture and technology are increasingly reliant on the hive mind–and whatever its faults, Lanier's broadside helps us consider the consequences of this momentous development.2006 December 10, Steven Johnson, “Digital Maoism”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry hivemind
  • Although the work does not pretend to be a scholarly contribution per se, it is doubtful that any Scandinavianist could not profit by studying this momentous (à la an Enc.1964, Svein Øksenholt, “Dagligliv i Danmark i det nittende og tyvende århundrede. Vol. 1, by A. Steensberg [Book Review]”, in Scandinavian…. From the entry Scandinavianist

Meaning of momentous

  1. adjective Outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

Full definition of momentous

Questions about momentous in a sentence

How do you use momentous in a sentence?
Momentous is used as an adjective. For example: “What to the other parties was merely the sale of a ship was to him a momentous event involving a radically new view of existence.”
What is a short sentence with momentous?
“This makes the end of the century epochful and momentous.”
What does momentous mean?
Momentous means outstanding in importance, of great consequence.

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