How to Use formative in a Sentence

formative

adjective

• This experience had a formative influence on his art.
• These are the most formative years for our sense of self in some ways.
  — David Marchese Photograph By Mamadi Doumbouya, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• Dante’s Peak is one of the formative movies of my childhood.
  — Harry Guinness, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2023
• Smith was born in Utah and spent some of his formative years in the Beehive State.
  — Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• There have been a lot of style eras between that formative bag and her Coach show look.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Feb. 2023
• The three friends endured the pandemic at a formative time in their lives.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2023
• Hannah has plenty of her own formative wounds wrapped in the show.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2022
• But the worst part by far was losing those formative years with his children.
  — Jake Pearson, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
• Like most conflicts, a formative struggle over power is at the heart of the dispute.
  — Ben Pryor, Outside Online, 13 Oct. 2022
• People are creating films and TV shows now that look back at the things that were a big part of their formative years.
  — Christy Piña, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 July 2023
• His lineage was influential from his formative years to the cusp of his career and through the present day.
  — Bianca Alysse, Men's Health, 28 Sep. 2022
• Other creators who took the stage on Sunday night spent their formative years in the public eye.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2022
• Several of them are U.S.-born, or have spent their formative years here.
  — Anthony Bautista, Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• Threads of those formative years appear in Simmons’s work, which often shifts between the clamorous and the calm.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2022
• Grayson pauses when asked what she’s learned over the years, including from her formative years with Deitch.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2023
• Having spent is more formative adolescent and teenage years in the Detroit area, Smith sought to bring his bring his skills back to a place that felt like home.
  — Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
• Dating is a normal part of adolescence – and a formative one at that.
  — Kirsi Goldynia, CNN, 15 Feb. 2023
• The actor was familiar with the writer from her formative years.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 19 Feb. 2023
• But to my siblings and I—and millions of other 90s kids like us—the film was a formative experience.
  — Sona Charaipotra, Parents, 11 Oct. 2023
• My mother used to tell me that growing up, her best friends were her cousins, and that her tías and tíos were important parts of her formative years.
  — Nicole Froio, refinery29.com, 19 May 2023
• Some came ready to hear songs that climbed the charts before they were born, while others reveled in re-living eras from life's formative years.
  — Matthew Leimkuehler, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• But those who knew her during her formative years spotted her ease on stage from the beginning.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 10 Nov. 2022
• Their formative years were full of games in the backyard and driveway, many of which saw competitive juices flow and tempers flare.
  — Brad Joyal, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Feb. 2023
• Gray’s screen alter ego, Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), is captured at a younger, more formative age.
  — Simi Horwitz, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Dec. 2022
• As if most of us spent our formative years robbing people at gunpoint.
  — The Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• Ali was born Virginia Rollins in 1933, and in many ways, her formative years were preindustrial.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• That was really formative and evolved my world.
  — Claire Salinda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2026
• The ages between 9 and 12—that is, the tween years—are extremely formative.
  — Anna Earl, Parents, 12 Mar. 2026
• But a lot of those formative years were spent toiling in London’s open-mic scene and busking on the streets.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2026
• That’s one of my formative records.
  — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026