Example sentences for: ferment

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

  • The Age of Enlightenment engendered a new cultural ferment.

  • Lee tried to choose objects that demonstrated innovation and experimentation; he has a particular interest in the relationship between technological advances--in ceramic and bronze production, for example--and creative ferment.

  • Protest against overcrowding, antiquated teaching, bureaucracy, and the very basis of the social system made the Sorbonne a focal point for unrest in 1968, a year of ferment throughout Europe.

  • In southern California, where the economy is roaring back, gas prices went up nearly that much this past summer and it was hardly a back-page story, much less the cause of any political ferment.

  • The WP lead details much local ferment about the way the Seattle police handled the anti-WTO demonstrators and the NYT inside has an excellent up-close on some of the self-proclaimed anarchists thought to have been responsible for much of the violence and destruction on Seattle's streets.


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