How to Use momentous in a Sentence

momentous

adjective
  • My college graduation was a momentous day in my life.
  • The date, 1987, was on the eve of some of the most momentous changes in world history.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That quickly turned to momentous cheers for the Hoosiers.
    — Chloe Peterson, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Jan. 2024
  • The girl group knows how to ride the pop machine’s momentous arc.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Ressler added that the business has gone through momentous changes in the past few decades.
    — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Getting that green light was the most momentous thing to me.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2024
  • But the fate of the state’s most momentous AI bill to date is yet to be determined.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
  • This was a momentous year for business at the Supreme Court.
    — John Quinn, Forbes, 19 Sep. 2024
  • The group broke up less than a year after this momentous show.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 14 June 2022
  • But just the fact that Simmons played in the game Wednesday was momentous.
    — Tania Ganguli, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2022
  • For a large majority of us, the war years were the most momentous of our lives.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
  • Did the loss of your father at such a momentous time in your life affect you?
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The episode’s other most momentous event is the overthrow of the Amyrlin Seat.
    — Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 17 Apr. 2025
  • But the road out of the first round will provide a momentous challenge for a team that has struggled since the All-Star break.
    — Julia Poe, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The third week of March 2018 was a momentous one for the Reinhart-Bell family.
    — Arden Farhi, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Yet for all the changes, the program’s expansion to older adults may have been the most momentous.
    — Kaiser Health News, San Francisco Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2023
  • That is the effect here: Mansfield darts among bright flashes of thought, from the momentous to the trivial.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 20 Aug. 2021
  • September is a momentous month that marks both back-to-school and a return to the runways.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Not long ago, choosing the right fork at a business meal felt like a momentous pass-or-fail test.
    — Fardad Zabetian, Forbes, 10 June 2021
  • She’d been born—that Sunday-morning call had come—in the momentous year 2000.
    — Graham Swift, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2024
  • The Weeknd publicly joined the hordes of music lovers mourning the momentous loss of Quincy Jones.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • This is a momentous year for both the Gantt center and Bonita Buford.
    — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The 2025 Met Gala is set to be one of the most momentous and visually compelling nights this year in fashion.
    — H. Alan Scott, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 May 2025
  • Some guests even took their phones out to film the momentous occasion.
    — Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 21 Feb. 2025
  • This begs the question: How did bond investors not foresee the momentous rise in yields?
    — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 5 Oct. 2022
  • To her, Capri is a place that full of memories of momentous childhood firsts.
    — Irene Kim, Vogue, 21 Aug. 2023
  • In the clip, May apologized for not being with the team on the momentous occasion.
    — Hafsa Khalil, CNN, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The next 12 months or so should also be pretty momentous for Comey.
    — Izzy Grinspan, Harper's BAZAAR, 7 Sep. 2023
  • These days, de Blasio most often makes the news for his love life or for such momentous moves as dyeing his salt-and-pepper crewcut.
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 5 May 2025
  • While momentous events unfold in the backdrop of most of these eras, the film places us in the perspective of characters who are children or teenagers, and whose accounts are immediate and personal.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 14 May 2025

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