How to Use epochal in a Sentence

epochal

adjective
  • And the run itself to that epochal late spring Wednesday night lives on.
    — Eric Stephens, Orange County Register, 19 June 2017
  • But on the right, Thomas has come to be regarded as an epochal justice.
    — New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022
  • This epochal shift can be seen in the national debates over slavery.
    — Eli Cook, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2017
  • But that's still going to tell us a whole lot more about the aftermath of this epochal impact.
    — Tulika Bose, Scientific American, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Shay's lone presence is all the more poignant as the number of survivors of the epochal battle dwindles.
    — Sylvie Corbet, Star Tribune, 5 June 2021
  • Shay’s lone presence is all the more poignant as the number of survivors of the epochal battle dwindles.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • Just wait, counter the crypto faithful, who contend an epochal breakthrough is around the corner.
    — David Segal, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
  • There have been 1,211 men who played for Cleveland during this epochal wait.
    — SI.com, 27 Sep. 2017
  • Chinese thought leaders conceived of the strategy in epochal terms.
    — Alex Wang, Twin Cities, 19 Oct. 2025
  • The virus has upset the human microbiome in an epochal act of strategic surprise.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 19 May 2020
  • To Seid, that meant looking for ways to place financial bets that had the potential to make epochal change.
    — Andy Kroll, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2022
  • The world is falling apart, layoffs and food lines are mounting, and so much about the epochal pandemic remains unknown.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2020
  • At least, not like other epochal companies of the internet age, such as Meta and Google.
    — Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2023
  • That revolution is turning out to be as epochal as the one triggered by the invention of the printing press.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2013
  • Precipitation was 80% of average — not bad in the midst of an epochal drought.
    — Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2022
  • And in my view, this burgeoning momentum is a prelude to an epochal change that will fully gather speed with the coming of the new year.
    — Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 23 Dec. 2024
  • But in many ways, 9/11 — and the epochal conflagration that followed — feels distant.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2020
  • There is nothing to do with a day except to live it, a great poet wrote, and there may be nothing to do with an epochal year except to remember it.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 19 Feb. 2024
  • When the world was hit by its next epochal crisis, Merkel had learned the importance of clear and frank communication.
    — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
  • In the wake of that movie’s epochal success, the suits at Disney became more aggressive about their releases.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 24 July 2024
  • Welcome to Reuters, the news agency which faces, today, the most epochal decision in its history.
    — Felix Salmon, Recode, 16 Mar. 2018
  • This is an epochal work, as deep and resonant as its subject matter, and would represent for any writer the achievement of a lifetime.
    — Literary Hub, 16 July 2024
  • Its demographics have also undergone an epochal shift.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2026
  • And certainly, no one expected 2016 to be such a buoyant, maybe even epochal, year for music.
    — Brian Raftery, WIRED, 26 Aug. 2016
  • That sale, 10 years ago this weekend, is an epochal moment in the explosive growth of the Premier League.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 1 Sep. 2018
  • And the epochal stakes of that quest mean the West's condemnations are unlikely to ring very loudly in Beijing.
    — Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu, CNN, 30 June 2020
  • The years during which Albinati comes of age are years of epochal change for Italy, for Catholicism, for ideals of manhood.
    — Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The blank tone, angry beeping, and whirring static that comprised the epochal dial-up sound will forever haunt kids who lived through the '90s.
    — Chelsey Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Feb. 2020
  • In missing this, Nussbaum succumbs to the spell of Churchill’s epochal speeches of 1940.
    — Priya Satia, The New Republic, 20 May 2022
  • Everyone is looking for an epochal success—a Steve Jobs, a Jeff Bezos.
    — WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023

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