How to Use phenomena in a Sentence

phenomena

noun
  • But what if the arrow of time looked at phenomena where entropy changes are small?
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Some phenomena are more well-known than others, though, and some are harder to catch.
    — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 14 May 2022
  • They were beloved among the public who believed in such phenomena.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2 June 2021
  • These phenomena are not seen as having anything like the impact of white men.
    — Chandran Nair, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Way up in the atmosphere above a wildfire, phenomena can grow all the more bizarre.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
  • To have not known the cause of the phenomena would have been very disconcerting.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Now iCarly is over and twelve years have passed since vlogging was a new phenomena.
    — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 30 Aug. 2017
  • These same phenomena are a big part of the Tesla stock story.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Those phenomena could alter the moon's color at any point, though, not just during the blue moon.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • That makes for some unusual light phenomena; the sun doesn’t set in summer or rise in winter.
    — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 8 June 2018
  • The phenomena occurs because male and queen ants leave their colonies to mate when conditions are just right.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • But like any celestial phenomena, the darker the skies above, the better the show.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2024
  • This may be news to city dwellers, but on the outskirts of town these vehicles are a cultural phenomena.
    — Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • This is not a new phenomena of the world feeling so vivid, so extreme, that finding an angle of approach is hard.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2025
  • This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But as a scholar, he is also intrigued by the use of new kinds of data to explore complex phenomena.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2022
  • In the year and a half since, Tiziana’s fame, like all viral phenomena, has finally begun to fade.
    — Rossalyn Warren, The Atlantic, 16 May 2018
  • We’re still left to reason through phenomena using the neural networks inside our skulls.
    — ArsTechnica, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There is a fear that the time, energy and money invested will be lost, a phenomena known as the sunk cost fallacy.
    — Lindsay Kohler, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • It’s best viewed during a full moon, but the phenomena will continue through much of 2025.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • First among them is the expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and phenomena in the atmosphere and space.
    — Lori Garver, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2021
  • There's a lot of symmetry between the moon and Earth, most commonly seen in a phenomena known as tidal locking.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Other phenomena such as ice balls, ice jams, and even ice bites can also be seen in and along the Great Lakes during winter months.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • By the late 1990s, the single girl in the city who couldn’t find love became a cultural phenomena.
    — Allison Schrager, Quartz, 23 July 2019
  • Initially, in 2009, the idea was to look at the phenomena of people changing their lives.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2022
  • The luxury slump has become one of the biggest phenomena of a tight 2023.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Dec. 2023
  • In the face of a rapidly changing world, the preservation of objects, organisms and phenomena takes on a new urgence.
    — Vogue, 17 Feb. 2023
  • The report was spurred in part by the public release of three Navy videos showing the flight of unidentified aerial phenomena.
    — Brett Forrest, WSJ, 25 June 2021
  • Minecraft, the building and creation game based on blocks, is one of the biggest gaming phenomena of the early 21st century.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • This phenomena is an optical illusion of sorts that occurs as the result of the brain comparing the moon to the size of trees and buildings seen in the same view of the sky.
    — Hannah Millington, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2025

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