How to Use initiation in a Sentence

initiation

noun
  • The cap was knocked out within months of the trade initiation.
    — Vineer Bhansali, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • What is the club initiation cost?
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • For instance, ask the gym to give you a free trial month or waive the initiation fee.
    — cleveland.com, 7 June 2017
  • For instance, ask the gym to give you a free trial month or waive the initiation fee.
    — Courtney Jespersen, latimes.com, 4 June 2017
  • For instance, ask the gym to give you a free trial month or waive the initiation fee.
    — @nerdwallet, OregonLive.com, 9 June 2017
  • So that’s part of it, is just working on the initiation and who to collect.
    — Holly Otterbein, Philly.com, 9 May 2018
  • The club's initiation fee works out to about 7% of the home's asking price.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Selmont did not respond to a query about the gang initiation claim.
    — Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
  • At the initiation of a fight, both flyers must drop their carryons so as not to use them as a weapon.
    — Mark Gomez, The Mercury News, 10 May 2017
  • The weak wait for the strong—their motion is all response, no initiation.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The ad goes on to read that women can join for $20 a month with no initiation fee.
    — Brandon Patterson, Detroit Free Press, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Has the age of smoking initiation come down more rapidly for women than for men?
    — Susan Scutti, CNN, 24 May 2018
  • Police are not aware of any video that captures the initiation of the fight between the two men.
    — Megan Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2021
  • The journey is arguably akin to an initiation; the road is rough, but the reward is sweet.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 2 May 2023
  • And so there was a kind of bonding, initiation process, stepping into all of it.
    — Abigail Lee, Variety, 25 Mar. 2025
  • Private clubs charge tens of thousands in initiation fees and then tack on monthly dues.
    — Hugh Kellenberger, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2026
  • As is the case in football these days, Bony was made to perform an initiation song.
    — SI.com, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Not an impulse purchase this time but a sort of yearning for initiation.
    — Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Before the initiation that year, the girls went to Gearhart for a night in June.
    — OregonLive.com, 22 Dec. 2017
  • The toon movie turns on one keenie’s life story from initiation to old age, says Bonet.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022
  • The next day was set aside for our initiation to antelope hunting.
    — Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The initiation is the first among firms tracked by Bloomberg since shares started trading last week.
    — Fortune, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Equinoxes happen twice a year, during the initiation of fall and spring.
    — Lisa Stardust, refinery29.com, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The past few days have been about as intense an initiation into the job as anyone could imagine.
    — Will McCarthy, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Sep. 2022
  • Hazing is a ritual that involves risk, pain or harm to gain some form of initiation.
    — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Puck coached Gomez on cooking, giving her two kitchen initiation tests.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The first candidate for initiation this year was a teenager whose face had been smeared with mud and the dregs of homemade beer.
    — Rodney Muhumuza, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2024
  • For once, the talk wasn’t about the initiation of unproven young players but established stars.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Last month, Auburn's board of trustees approved the initiation of a project for a new videoboard in the North end zone.
    — James Crepea, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • According to the church, baptism is the first of three sacraments of initiation.
    — Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic, 15 Feb. 2022

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