epiphany

in a sentence

But this epiphany occurred only after the intervention of time and misfortune, when my fathers self-satisfied existence had begun to crumble beneath him.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

But one day I had an epiphany.  (source) Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner, 2003

"Well, your grades obviously aren't bad because you can't pick this stuff up or because you are stupid, you are just not working hard enough," my mother said, her voice rising into the epiphany.  (source) Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore, 2010

The feeling—the epiphany—was a strange, one, foreign and familiar at the same time.  (source) James Dashner, The Maze Runner, 2009

I don't believe in epiphanies.  (source) J. D. Vance, Hillbilly Elegy, 2016

He knew not from where the epiphany came.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

There are no scenes, no breakdowns, no epiphanies.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

We looked at each other and just laughed; everything was hysterically funny, even the playground slide was smiling at us, and at some point, deep in the night, when we were climbing on the jungle gym and showers of sparks were flying out of our mouths, I had the epiphany that laughter was light, and light was laughter, and that this was the secret of the universe.  (source) Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch, 2013

A place riddled with epiphanies, that's what it was.  (source) Don DeLillo, Underworld, 1997

I had an epiphany.  (source) John Green, Looking for Alaska, 2005

It was the letter I had tried but failed to write in the past, the kind that Noah had once suggested, and though I'd once found the very idea impossible, the epiphanies of the past year, and particularly the past week, lent my words an uncharacteristic grace.  (source) Nicholas Sparks, The Wedding, 2003

It doesn't come in a flash, a sudden epiphany.  (source) Nicola Yoon, Everything, Everything, 2017

Find someone else to endure your frivolous poppycock and threadbare 'epiphanies.'  (source) Henry H. Neff, The Maelstrom, 2012