How to Use identity crisis in a Sentence

identity crisis

noun
  • He is suffering from an identity crisis.
  • That poor guy has had enough identity crises for one lifetime.
    — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Growing up, that identity crisis used to feel like such a curse for me.
    — Becky G, Billboard, 27 Mar. 2025
  • But at times, the show seemed to suffer from an identity crisis.
    — Joey Guerra, Houston Chronicle, 24 May 2018
  • Paramount+ has been in a bit of an identity crisis in the streaming era.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
  • But that doesn’t mean its identity crisis is resolved for points south.
    — Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
  • These shifts point to a broader identity crisis in the manosphere.
    — Jesus Mesa, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Apr. 2025
  • The show needs to be having an identity crisis.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • In the age of hip-hop, female pop stars are facing an identity crisis.
    — Neil Shah, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • On top of day-to-day snafus, the camp was having an identity crisis.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2021
  • But Gilpin’s identity crisis is a bit too raw to ring hollow.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 15 June 2022
  • Take action to help avoid this identity crisis.
    — Kathleen Lucente, Forbes.com, 16 Feb. 2026
  • All that’s left are the bones of a movie that’s going through an identity crisis, and a good idea gone to waste.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The findings reflect what many call an identity crisis in the field.
    — Ruth Umoh, Fortune, 9 Mar. 2026
  • In my own life, being an actor is a little bit of an identity crisis on its own.
    — Ilana Kaplan, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2023
  • So this is a real problem for the party in terms of this identity crisis.
    — NBC news, 19 Apr. 2026
  • What young women are going through, then, is an identity crisis.
    — Faith Hill, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Maddock likens losing her long hair to an identity crisis.
    — Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 9 Oct. 2025
  • There are few better places for an identity crisis than alone in the shadow of giants.
    — Kate McMahon, AFAR Media, 13 Aug. 2025
  • The shift to the marketplace model can feel like an identity crisis for some brands.
    — Adrien Nussenbaum, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • The show comes at a time when the city is suffering a kind of identity crisis over its failure to build big.
    — Henry Grabar, Slate Magazine, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Square Enix has been struggling with an identity crisis with the series for more than a decade.
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • From the get-go, Hulu has had something of an identity crisis.
    — Todd Spangler, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
  • In its infancy, the universe had a bit of an identity crisis.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 4 May 2026
  • Drawing the Packers in the midst of their own identity crisis.
    — Tara Sullivan, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Oct. 2022
  • And this identity crisis shines through in the treatment of career services.
    — Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Having them on the opposing side gives me an identity crisis.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 29 June 2026
  • At the time of the group’s founding, Japan was a country in flux and in the midst of a deep identity crisis.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2020
  • The risky hire backfired on a program that remains stuck in an identity crisis of their own creation.
    — Mac Engel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 19 Feb. 2025
  • In the late 1960s, black people were in the midst of an identity crisis.
    — Giulia L. Heyward, The New Republic, 15 June 2020

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