Example sentences for: epiphany

How can you use “epiphany” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Finn's awkwardness keeps him inoffensive, but it thoroughly obviates the dramatic arc that's the whole point of Dickens' novel: If success doesn't change Finn for the worse, then his rejection of the high life doesn't entail the same kind of sacrifices--or come as a consequence of some harrowing epiphany.

  • An introduction to the collection The Literary Journalists (1984) reports that the Hoving profile was shaped like a capital Y, in which "the descending branches finally joined at a moment of an epiphany during Hoving's college career at Princeton, and then proceeded along the bottom stem in a single line."

  • Mrs. Dalloway and Septimus never meet, but Gorris brings them in sight of each other at the start of the film; and news of Septimus' fate triggers Mrs. Dalloway's tortured and then euphoric final musings--the epiphany that brings the movie to its poetic conclusion.

  • Two blocks down on Virginia Avenue, we come to the site of my epiphany.

  • January: Piana degli Albanesi (near Palermo): colorful Byzantine ritual for Epiphany


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