How to Use reformation in a Sentence

reformation

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  • Your art needs to punch folks in the face & spark a reformation.
    — Shauna Stuart | [email protected], al, 15 June 2020
  • The disturbances have a 50% chance of reformation in the next two to five days.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The disturbance remains at a 50% chance of reformation in the next two to five days.
    — Lynnette Cantos, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • The Reformation is our go-to shop for all things ‘90s: Mini dresses, midi wraps, vintage denim, and the like.
    — Avery Matera, Teen Vogue, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Later that year, Karl was sent away, like Jacques Cousteau before him, to boarding school for reformation.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 2 June 2023
  • Look, Rick Perry is a member of the new apostolic reformation.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Slate Magazine, 4 May 2017
  • The monastery was dissolved as a result of the Reformation, but Luther continued living there and was joined by his wife and family in 1525.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • But the focus ought to be on the cost of higher education, and a reformation on how to deliver it to more people.
    — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Good People blazed the trail for the state’s breweries and helped usher in the state’s beer reformation laws, widely helmed by the grassroots organization, Free the Hops.
    — al, 29 May 2021
  • Shot through with clever asides and spiky feelings, the story ponders trust, reformation, and forgiveness.
    — Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 May 2024
  • The tax code reformation was built for economic growth, according to Brady.
    — Jacob McAdams, Houston Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2018
  • People didn’t want to hear that we were still locked in a cycle of racial progress, backlash, retrenchment, and reformation of systems of racial and social control.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
  • But the early years of the 21st century have seen the same sort of theoretical revival and reformation which occurred in the early 20th.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2013
  • But Harry and Stein, who weathered rock’s usual excesses, financial straits and the breakup and reformation of Blondie, remain a team.
    — Howard Cohen, miamiherald, 28 July 2017
  • Through the dark times, something incredible is emerging: a reformation, a regeneration from the hands of the youngest.
    — Sarah Mower, Vogue, 13 June 2021
  • The music industry is going through a reformation now in a really big way.
    — Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2021
  • Whether anybody says so, reformation is bound to imply buzzkill.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 21 Oct. 2017
  • The Stone Mountain Action Coalition, a grassroots organization that has pushed for a sweeping reformation at the park, said that’s not a good excuse.
    — al, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Bitcoin could only move forward by schism rather than reformation.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, WIRED, 18 June 2018
  • In the decades after, black boys and girls weren't given access to reformation, but rather incarceration that either resulted in jail or, sometimes, a lynch mob.
    — Lincoln Anthony Blades, Teen Vogue, 14 Jan. 2018
  • However, as the system enters the tail-end of the week, it is expected to encounter hostile hurdles preventing reformation.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 22 Sep. 2021
  • The barbecue sauce of American freedom came from a pinch of French enlightenment, a dash of German religious reformation, and a spoonful of British common law.
    — Mark Sappenfield, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 July 2017
  • The videos come as the US continues to grapple with police brutality and killings across the nation, prompting reformation in policing in several cities, and sparking protests calling for justice.
    — Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN, 15 June 2021
  • However, as the system is south this weekend, it is expected to encounter hostile hurdles in the form of strong upper-level winds preventing reformation.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • This sparked a grassroots movement called the Reformation, which divided the Western church in two, leading to the founding of Protestantism and transforming the way generations of people thought about their relationship to God.
    — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, 26 June 2017
  • Under his leadership, the party long ago traded its torch symbol for a flower, aiming to underscore its reformation.
    — Vanessa Gera and Jan M. Olsen, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Bieber pushed for legislation on national and international trade and the reformation of health care.
    — Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 17 Feb. 2020
  • The office was created during the reformation of New Hampshire’s child protection system.
    — John Suayan, Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2020
  • The suggestion of an underfoot Utopia is here and now, requiring no reformation of other people’s attitudes.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
  • However, by exposing the tellurite glass to a femtosecond laser, the researchers discovered the glass’s inner structure was broken up into a state that allowed for reformation into new phases of the material.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Feb. 2024

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