How to Use phenomenon in a Sentence

phenomenon

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  • The movie eventually became a cultural phenomenon.
  • This is part of a phenomenon at the Yosemite right now.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2018
  • Radar Blackout At the heart of the problem is a phenomenon that dates back to the Space Race of the 1960s.
    — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2023
  • This new study is the first to show that the phenomenon is not unique to Amazon.
    — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Sep. 2021
  • And that phenomenon reminds me that life brings change -- in the sky and on our earth.
    — cleveland, 15 June 2020
  • Accounts of the phenomenon date all the way back to ancient Greece.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Aug. 2020
  • The East Coast will have the best view of the phenomenon as long as the skies remain clear, the Weather Channel said.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 24 May 2024
  • The phenomenon was not unique to Texas, but it was pronounced here.
    — Katharine Jose, Chron, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Now, the 22-year-old is spurring something of a merch phenomenon, too.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 14 May 2018
  • The incident leads him down a path to study the phenomenon, leading him across the world.
    — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 21 Dec. 2018
  • But the phenomenon is much bigger than Lee and her fans.
    — Sarah Watts, The Cut, 1 Nov. 2017
  • In that sense, Kohl’s run of election blow-outs was partly a phenomenon of the times.
    — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • From here, the fog phenomenon can seem like a living event.
    — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2018
  • But at the same time, with the whole e-commerce and this social media phenomenon, the world has shrunk.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Hard to tell how real this phenomenon is right now, but it’s one to keep an eye on.
    — Fortune, 24 July 2019
  • This was 16 years ago, and in the years since, street style has become a global phenomenon.
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 3 Aug. 2023
  • These phenomena can cause sea levels to rise near the ice sheets and fall in the mid-latitudes.
    — Frank Hulley-Jones, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2023
  • But things seem to be changing, and the phenomenon referred to as the lock-in effect is easing.
    — Alena Botros, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The phenomenon has left some places with a shortage of supply and others with a glut.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Apr. 2021
  • The phenomenon has threaded through society since it was born in the Bronx in 1973.
    — Morgan Hines, USA TODAY, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Tents themselves seem to play a role in this phenomenon.
    — Sam Quinones, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2021
  • But the rise in gun violence is not just a big-city phenomenon.
    — Washington Post, 14 June 2021
  • This phenomenon isn’t the most important thing about our response to the virus, not even close.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 3 Aug. 2021
  • The phenomenon that created the rings are light echoes.
    — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • And so that phenomenon can kind of be broken by a public tech bank.
    — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 23 May 2023
  • The sluggish pace of fourth-round signings is a new phenomenon.
    — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2022
  • Delta isn’t alone in offering travelers a chance to see the phenomenon from the sky.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Simmons’ might be the most instructive gaze through which to view the phenomenon.
    — David Murphy, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • But no matter the result of Tuesday's race, the former president is near the end of a phenomenon that has fueled his political career and left a mark on American elections: His raucous campaign rallies.
    — David Jackson, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2024
  • For spectacular phenomena at the other end of the temperature scale, majestic icebergs, many of them formed by glaciers some tens of million of years ago, are one of Antarctica’s biggest attractions.
    — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 2 Nov. 2024

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