Sample Sentences for
pivotal
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    Then, in the midst of this idyll, came the first of two pivotal setbacks.  (source)
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    Once uncovered again, she asked the pivotal question.  (source)
    pivotal = very important and influencing how things develop
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    A few days ago, when I was communing with the orrery, I was trying so hard to find the single pivotal moment that set my life on its path.  (source)
    pivotal = very important and influencing how things developed
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    "You guys," Mae said, knowing she had to make this statement very clear, knowing this was a pivotal moment, for their own health and the overall health data—gathering system the Circle was trying to make possible.  (source)
    pivotal = very important
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    In the three months following Rogers's story, Jet, Ebony, Smithsonian, and various newspapers published articles about Henrietta, "one of the pivotal figures in the crusade against cancer."  (source)
    pivotal = very important and influencing how things developed
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    The ninth grade stands out as a pivotal time in my life.†  (source)
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    Millennia ago, she decreed that we would play pivotal roles in many battles.†  (source)
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    How did it make him feel to deliver all those copies of The Gravesend News-Letter, wherein Mr. Morrison's former role was described as "not only pivotal but principal"—and Owen Meany was showered with the kind of praise Mr. Morrison might have imagined for himself?†  (source)
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    This was the pivotal moment in the entire play, and it sets the tone for everything else that happens afterward.†  (source)
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    This distinction between something and nothing-this pivotal separation between being and nonbeing-is quite fundamental and underlies many Creation myths.†  (source)
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    He had come to the surface facing down the stream; in a moment the visible world seemed to wheel slowly round, himself the pivotal point, and he saw the bridge, the fort, the soldiers upon the bridge, the captain, the sergeant, the two privates, his executioners.†  (source)
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    This was a big deal; a pivotal decision in the case.†  (source)
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    Long ago, he had played the pivotal role in Mal'akh's mortal life path.†  (source)
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