How to Use revelatory in a Sentence

revelatory

adjective
  • Why do these shortcuts feel—for most of us, at least—so revelatory?
    — Jared Newman, PCWorld, 21 Apr. 2021
  • Maybe that’s why last year felt so revelatory in its emptiness.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • Post-credits scenes that are any more revelatory than this one?
    — Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 25 Oct. 2024
  • This one episode is so revelatory and that was very exciting to me.
    — Zoe G. Phillips, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Grohl and his fellow Foos are even more revelatory in the flesh.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Regardless, the role brings out a side of him that feels revelatory.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Dec. 2025
  • But what was quite revelatory for me was being with the writers in the writers' room.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 16 June 2022
  • But the questions the stories raise about life and death can be startling, even revelatory.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • That was a revelatory performance of an old warhorse; perhaps this will be, too.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • But again and again in recent months, the city emerged as an arena in which those tensions played out in vivid and revelatory ways.
    — New York Times, 2 Jan. 2021
  • But the effect of his rather modest aim is something close to revelatory.
    — Daniel May, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Those revelatory nuggets were once part of the enchantment, too.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2024
  • Your lives will be exciting, revelatory, awesome, in the truest sense of that word.
    — Time Staff, Time, 21 May 2017
  • The thing that was most revelatory to me was the sleep deprivation.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The eye mask, however, was revelatory, once I got used to it.
    — Christine Yu, Outside Online, 17 Mar. 2025
  • None of those lessons are really all that revelatory.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The line may prove revelatory for where Fen needs to go in Season 4.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 5 Apr. 2018
  • For some, this will seem as revelatory as exposing the hollowness of a steel drum.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
  • And for every ripoff, there’s a revelatory bite waiting to be unveiled.
    — Rai Mincey, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The last few episodes of Westworld have been some of the best — and most revelatory — of the entire season.
    — Bryan Bishop, The Verge, 18 June 2018
  • This seems to be the attitude around the revelatory bats in the Mets clubhouse.
    — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But these kinds of revelatory roles have become par for the course for Charlize.
    — Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
  • The sound on the new restoration is revelatory, even for people who know the original film and record inside out.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The album’s crown jewel and most revelatory moment comes in the title track.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2021
  • Editor’s picks Tyler’s life has long played a role in his world-building, and the blurred line at one point felt revelatory.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But this line of research, too, has turned out to be far less revelatory than anticipated.
    — Eric Turkheimer, The Atlantic, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Below, a breakdown of some of the most revelatory lyrics about the power couple's love story.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • For one, null results—in this case, findings that are not unusual or revelatory—are still useful.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 4 June 2026
  • There was no one revelatory prospect Thursday, but a handful of players set themselves apart from their peers.
    — Jeremy Woo, SI.com, 17 May 2018
  • Here’s a tour of the 10 most revelatory moments on Feel Flows.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2021

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