Example sentences for: epochal

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

  • The monument to Perry and Harris, not far from the harbor, celebrates these epochal events, as does Shimoda’s annual Kurobune Matsuri (“Black Ship Festival”) in May.

  • We humans deserved a better spokesman at this epochal point in our ongoing voyage of humility; a half century from now, surly, street-tough androids will routinely start bar brawls over the bitchy tone of Kasparov's remarks.

  • The movie couples sexual obsession with an epochal fear of sex: It says, "Don't go there, you won't like what you see."

  • In India, the Hindu devoted its main editorial Monday to the euro under the headline "An epochal experiment."

  • This foreshortening of the century forced the elimination of such undeniably epochal events as Jesse Owens' performance in Berlin, Roger Bannister's breaking of the four-minute mile, and the Baltimore Colts' sudden death championship win.


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