How to Use redemptive in a Sentence

redemptive

adjective

• On top of that, the character was killed at the end of the movie in a redemptive act.
  — Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The concert played as a redemptive story arc told through songs.
  — Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
• And the ending hits just the right note, both tragic and redemptive.
  — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 16 May 2026
• The earnestness with which they are spoken is not redemptive.
  — Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
• Why are most of us acting as if there’s no such thing as redemptive suffering?
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 9 Mar. 2020
• The moguls have lost their faith in the redemptive and life-changing power of new music.
  — Bill Hochberg, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
• Many whites have been more than happy to sit back and allow black people to do all the redemptive work.
  — Dahleen Glanton, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
• This is a redemptive movement, rooted deeply in love and justice and truth.
  — Ellie Silverman, Washington Post, 18 June 2022
• At the time, this looked like a redemptive, healing moment for Jaime.
  — Joanna Robinson, HWD, 12 July 2017
• For those bands still trying to stay together, the night was redemptive.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
• This is a show that shows us sometimes at our worst, but at the same time there’s a redemptive undertone.
  — Candice Frederick, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 July 2019
• He was taken with the song’s redemptive love story and tucked it away, hoping for the right time to record it.
  — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 9 May 2024
• The innocent blood of these little girls may well serve as a redemptive force that will bring new light to this dark city.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2018
• There is a sad but redemptive end to the story of Yuri Boyka.
  — Joshua St. Clair, Men's Health, 24 Mar. 2023
• Here, what animates the score is not lust that blots out reason or the redemptive power of love.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 13 May 2025
• The long shot of Esti in orgasm, aimed at her face and arching neck, feels like the movie’s redemptive core.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 30 Apr. 2018
• The all-purpose running back entered the night as the odds-on favorite to win the redemptive award.
  — Noah Furtado, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Feb. 2026
• The result was one of the best redemptive seasons in sports history.
  — Dan Greene, SI.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• The new film is a redemptive restoration, and expansion, of what the original one was meant to be.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
• Liz [Banks] always talks about the redemptive aspects of this story.
  — Vulture, 2 Mar. 2023
• But Tiger has also taken a redemptive road along the way, trying to heal mind body and spirit.
  — George Diaz, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• And his saga — at least its first part — sanctifies the joy of escape as an act of redemptive moral rebellion.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 16 Sep. 2022
• But true to form, the Pulitzer Prize-winning hip-hop star doesn’t approach it in an easy redemptive arc.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
• The notion of work as a redemptive force is central to Bannon’s thinking, as well as to his own habits.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
• In what will mark his final game in this rivalry, Dicker would love to go out with some sort of redemptive kick.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Oct. 2021
• The redemptive half-season that just aired set the stage, quite stunningly, for a dark reckoning.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• Bieber, mirroring the work of John Milton, is drawn in by the long redemptive arc.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
• But only protein is endowed with a special kind of redemptive power.
  — Rachel Sugar, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2026
• But no matter, on Thursday there was a fire and joy in her set that proved how redemptive music can still be in the wake of such a loss.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• The win was redemptive for West Hills (15-6), a third-year program.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 May 2024