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Example sentences for: formative

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His friendships with the likes of writer and critic Georges Bataille, philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty, anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and linguist Roman Jakobson were formative in ways that he either fails to note or misleadingly acknowledges.
It was in this house that Bill spent his formative years, learning to walk, talk, laugh, play, read, and pray.
This was a group of people that had been born into near-bankruptcy and lived its formative years in a near-constant state of chaos.
The cost breakdown was as follows: formative research to learn about malaria treatment issues ($2000); design and production of 1500 shopkeeper job aids and 1500 client posters ($3000); training of mobile vendors and wholesale counter attendants, including t-shirts, caps and receipt books ($2800); and monitoring of mobile vendors and wholesale counter attendants by the DHMT ($500).
It's an honor to share breakfast conversation with one of the few people the disgruntled smartasses of my formless generation can genuinely look up to as a formative influence.