How to Use revelatory in a Sentence

revelatory

adjective
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  • A revelatory clue floats from the sky and the killer is roped in.
    — N. R. Kleinfield, New York Times, 26 May 2017
  • 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
  • The line may prove revelatory for where Fen needs to go in Season 4.
    — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Grohl and his fellow Foos are even more revelatory in the flesh.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Here’s a tour of the 10 most revelatory moments on Feel Flows.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 3 June 2021
  • And there's a revelatory plot twist in the second act that one doesn't see coming.
    — Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Oct. 2017
  • But what was quite revelatory for me was being with the writers in the writers' room.
    — Devan Coggan, EW.com, 16 June 2022
  • Fred Astaire for the first time has been revelatory for him.
    — Dylan Owens, The Know, 2 Apr. 2017
  • 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
  • Why do these shortcuts feel—for most of us, at least—so revelatory?
    — Jared Newman, PCWorld, 21 Apr. 2021
  • But the questions the stories raise about life and death can be startling, even revelatory.
    — Susan Svrluga, Washington Post, 5 July 2018
  • The thing that was most revelatory to me was the sleep deprivation.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 10 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • Your lives will be exciting, revelatory, awesome, in the truest sense of that word.
    — Time Staff, Time, 21 May 2017
  • Maybe that’s why last year felt so revelatory in its emptiness.
    — New York Times, 2 July 2021
  • In the time between when the revelatory episode was recorded and published, seemingly, Cartwright may have moved back in.
    — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 1 Mar. 2024
  • But these kinds of revelatory roles have become par for the course for Charlize.
    — Glamour, 12 Nov. 2019
  • But their most revelatory visit was to the museum that was once the home of Moïse de Camondo.
    — Nancy Hass, ELLE Decor, 4 Nov. 2011
  • And the subtle anti-Semitism of blaming slavery on the Jews was revelatory.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Below, a breakdown of some of the most revelatory lyrics about the power couple's love story.
    — Jeff Nelson, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Her style of raw and revelatory punk-funk defies any notions that women can’t be visionaries in the worlds of rock and pop.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 9 Feb. 2022
  • That was a revelatory performance of an old warhorse; perhaps this will be, too.
    — Lawrence Toppman, charlotteobserver, 4 Feb. 2018
  • The viral, revelatory item was simply this: The upper rack of many dishwashers can be raised and lowered to make room for large items on the bottom or top rack.
    — Susan Hall Mahon, Southern Living, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The album’s crown jewel and most revelatory moment comes in the title track.
    — Hanif Abdurraqib, Rolling Stone, 5 May 2021
  • Those revelatory nuggets were once part of the enchantment, too.
    — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2024
  • But in 1969 this was truly revelatory, and the public devoured it.
    — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 23 Nov. 2019
  • Most of those songs arrive with confessional notes from Curreri, the best of which are as revelatory as any of his music.
    — Brendan Fitzgerald, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • In this revelatory memoir, Bruce Springsteen takes readers into his career, from his New Jersey roots to his life onstage as one of the most iconic performers of our time.
    — Carly Tagen-Dye, Peoplemag, 26 Sep. 2024
  • With few exceptions, my students were not willing to enter those uncomfortable spaces or remain there long enough to discover the revelatory power of writing.
    — Victoria Livingstone, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024

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