How to Use revolutionary in a Sentence

revolutionary

1 of 2 adjective
  • There's this strong sense of African-ness in her, the spirit of a liberator and a revolutionary runs through Agatha.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 4 May 2023
  • Amid all this is the percolation of revolutionary talk, which Bologne tries to skirt at first.
    Kaely Monahan, The Arizona Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
  • That was pretty revolutionary at the time, and it hasn’t really been touched on enough.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The once revolutionary fake meat purveyor can’t seem to outrun the looming specter of its own demise.
    Marnie Shure / The Takeout, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The congregation snacked on chocolate, sausages, and bread: the popcorn of the revolutionary age.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
  • That’s not the case for Microsoft and Google, which have scrambled to lead the pack on the revolutionary technology.
    Byeleanor Pringle, Fortune, 23 June 2023
  • The team say that the ability to analyze the full sound fields produced by whales is revolutionary.
    The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The aftershocks of the Great War continue to resonate, in part due to the revolutionary ways the conflict was depicted in art and media.
    Anne Wallentine, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Jan. 2024
  • This level of frankness was nearly revolutionary at the time, and so the book was treasured as tweener samizdat.
    Kyle Smith, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The question addressed by the revolutionary government was the emancipation of the Jews.
    Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Alaudin Ullah was swept up in the revolutionary energy of early hip-hop.
    Detroit Free Press Staff, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Advertisement The concert will celebrate the enduring impact of bebop, the revolutionary jazz style that rose to prominence in the first half of the 1940s.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The leaders of the revolutionary movement were known for wearing zoot suit-style outfits and mixing all kinds of genres, which would later play a role in La Maldita Vecindad blend of rock, ska, and folk sounds.
    Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
  • Modern riding was born with the influence of Tom Sims and Jake Burton in the late 1970s, which has led to a revolutionary movement that is today’s snowboarding scene.
    Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 21 Dec. 2023
  • But the revolutionary force of nature coursing through teenage bodies that refuse to be suppressed is powerfully brought to life.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The burden is, and always has been, on independent labels and artists to keep the torch of balance burning to embrace revolutionary messages in our craft.
    Spin Staff, Spin, 12 Sep. 2023
  • And his company, Melges Boatworks, produced the revolutionary Melges 24, the first of a genre of sport-sailboats that could double the speeds of its predecessors and which has become a favorite of top sailors.
    Chris Museler, New York Times, 22 May 2023
  • All fascinating stuff but not much that’s revolutionary, in my humble opinion; at least, not at this stage.
    Greg Petro, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • Some of the moves seem obvious, most are very clever, and all mark a return to ancient methods that have suddenly become revolutionary.
    John Anderson, wsj.com, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Those revolutionary times shook something loose in her.
    Rooksana Hossenally, Saveur, 12 July 2023
  • The cautionary voices of those like Shoshana are overwhelmed by the revolutionary fervor of the Irgun, who believe the land of Israel can only be built by violence.
    Alissa Simon, Variety, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Today, a look at the latest revolutionary treatments for cancer, plus are wages cooling?, and charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin in the Halyna Hutchins shooting.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The grades are steep, as much as 9 percent, so the company used Shay locomotives, a revolutionary design that relies on geared wheels and which improves the traction.
    Mark Orwoll, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2023
  • As a would-be revolutionary, planting bombs and staging attacks on Nazi targets.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2023
  • But in his more-than-decade-long tenure, the company just hasn’t brought to market a revolutionary product on par with those of his legendary predecessor Steve Jobs, those being, of course, the iPod and iPhone.
    Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 24 Jan. 2024
  • There’s no singing or dancing in the moment, and no grand speeches being made about Rydell’s social ills or revolutionary potential, which is just as well.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Given that the first edition iPhone 4GB was only sold for two months, despite being so revolutionary, it’s become quite the collector’s item.
    Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Bremerton was as revolutionary for its own area of law as Dobbs was for reproductive rights.
    Noah Feldman, Twin Cities, 23 Feb. 2024
  • More radical yet: Each figure in the window is rendered with dark skin, a revolutionary gesture.
    Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2023
  • The technical glitches made for an inauspicious start to Apple’s revolutionary deals with both the league and Messi.
    Paolo Confino, Fortune, 17 July 2023
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revolutionary

2 of 2 noun
  • In 1976, the artist travels to Tehran to take Polaroids of the Shah of Iran’s wife but encounters a young revolutionary.
    Doug George, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2022
  • But who's to say there wasn't maybe a little working-for-the-weekend revolutionary in him?
    Trey Williams, Fortune, 1 July 2022
  • FoxNews Channel's Ben Shapiro (@benshaprio) was among those who called out the revolutionary.
    Peter Suciu, Forbes, 14 June 2021
  • The next four years [of story\ are not about becoming a revolutionary.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2022
  • But the notion of Amtrak Joe as a policy revolutionary is still a stretch—to my mind, at least.
    John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 3 May 2021
  • What most beguiles us today is the sense that a proud revolutionary lurked beneath the winsome savage, the snowy smile.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022
  • One such unicorn was Mary Quant, the fashion revolutionary who died this week aged 93.
    Holly Thomas, CNN, 15 Apr. 2023
  • But a chance meeting with a friend and former high school classmate who worked for Stan Lee, the comic book revolutionary, led to his first big break.
    Derrick Bryson Taylor, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
  • The image of Armstrong the musical revolutionary was long at war with the image of Armstrong the Uncle Tom.
    Wsj Arts, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • That was a huge lesson from Lee Marvin, who wasn’t a revolutionary.
    Vulture, 26 May 2023
  • The documentary chronicles the life of the revolutionary and made its New York City premiere in Harlem last year.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The next four years [of story] are not about becoming a revolutionary.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 23 Nov. 2022
  • Seth Rogen is our shoo-in for the Argentinean revolutionary, of course.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • As foreign tourists flock to places like Casablanca in search of drugs and free love, former revolutionaries get caught up in the pursuit of money and power.
    Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2023
  • By this measure, George Stevens Jr. is a revolutionary in the guise of a movie-industry insider.
    Peter Tonguette, WSJ, 21 July 2022
  • The group’s leader, Yasir Arafat, was welcomed in Tehran within days after the revolutionaries took charge.
    Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2023
  • In Thuso Mbedu's mind, the next chapter would see Cora stepping into her role as a leader and a revolutionary.
    Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 25 May 2021
  • Logan all but laughs in Kendall’s face, calling himself a revolutionary and saying there are things his son doesn’t understand about the world.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Nguyen, known as Madame Binh, was a bona-fide communist revolutionary.
    Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Was Sade a revolutionary, working to expose the rotten core of the aristocracy into which he was born?
    WIRED, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Tamil guerrillas set off street bombs in Colombo while the corpses of JVP revolutionaries floated down rivers.
    Anjum Hasan, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
  • And that comes from Amílcar Cabral—a philosopher and an organizer and a revolutionary.
    Melissa Alexander, Glamour, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Protest was so much in his blood, John named his only son after the Argentine revolutionary, Che Guevara.
    Tyler R. Tynes, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2023
  • Back then, the new gizmo would have been considered nothing short of revolutionary.
    Leslie Katz, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Though less a revolutionary than Mao, Xi rules with a similarly firm grip on power.
    Stephanie Yang, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2022
  • His parents also agreed to help hide the revolutionary, but after he was caught, they were wanted by the authorities.
    Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 29 Jan. 2024
  • The former revolutionary lived a fairly long and quiet life thereafter, although her final years were marred by tragedy.
    Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The Failure of the Revolutionaries The socialist revolutionaries were the first of the factions to fail.
    Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • The documentary chronicles the life of the revolutionary and is making its New York City premiere today in Harlem.
    Melissa Noel, Essence, 17 Aug. 2022
  • But, like his opponent, Buhler doesn’t claim to be a revolutionary.
    Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021

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