How to Use seminal in a Sentence

seminal

adjective

• That’s the name of a seminal D.C. punk band that played its last live show in 2002.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2023
• The seminal chase scene veers through the mean streets of New York as hard-nosed Det.
  — Ryan Faughnderstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2023
• Fans can watch the men's final and seminal games on CBS.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• But of course, the seminal moment for Ed is losing Shane, his son, at the end of the first season.
  — Sharareh Drury, Variety, 14 Jan. 2024
• Bansal is in a lot of ways a seminal example of an IVP founder.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2024
• At the recent Dior and Moschino shows, the eyes echoed Gucci’s seminal sooty-eyed Fall 1995 show.
  — Tia Williams, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Feb. 2023
• The work completed over the 100 plus years while the studio has been active is seminal.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Mar. 2023
• Rarely seen but of seminal importance, Passing Through ranks near the top of the greatest jazz films.
  — Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2023
• Song like the charging, clever title track fit nicely to the band’s seminal recordings.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 31 Aug. 2023
• Gamers are more than eager to see a return to the pedigree of Telltale’s seminal performance in the 2010s.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023
• Burton, 67, first found fame as Kunta Kinte in the seminal miniseries Roots.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2024
• An Emmy for his role in the seminal 1977 TV miniseries Roots followed.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 29 Mar. 2024
• That seminal doll was outfitted in hoop earrings, a short fro, and a red bodysuit.
  — André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 20 July 2023
• For the deep thinker This seminal book is a thought-provoking gift for any sci-fi fan or existential thinker.
  — Angela Ledgerwood, wsj.com, 28 Oct. 2023
• The Golden State Transit decisions are seminal holdings in labor law, and the case cost the city millions.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• And where a surprising number of the game’s seminal figures and moments have their origin.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Solace undoubtedly harkens back to the seminal recordings of Mark Hollis and Talk Talk, and the live recordings are sure to do the same (perhaps on an even grander scale).
  — Spin Contributor, SPIN, 28 June 2023
• Teaming up with James proved to be a seminal moment in today’s NBA in terms how teams are shaped and how players try to control their career.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2023
• That’s the price the filmmaker is willing to pay to adapt Frank Herbert’s seminal text, especially right now.
  — Angelique Jackson, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
• The seminal British band has long been on the front lines of preserving what’s left of the rock scene, fragmented by streaming and buoyed by dad-rock nostalgia culture.
  — Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2023
• The first is named after Paul Erdős and Alfréd Rényi, two prominent graph theorists who did seminal work on the model.
  — Leila Sloman, Quanta Magazine, 24 July 2023
• But those few words hide layers of complexity, as a 2016 paper – now seen as seminal – showed.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• News of the tour comes just days after Minaj dropped her fifth studio album and follow-up to her seminal debut, 2010’s Pink Friday.
  — Sadie Bell, Peoplemag, 11 Dec. 2023
• The 50th Anniversary Collector’s Edition is a fitting insight and tribute to one of the most seminal bands in music.
  — Gail Mitchell, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2023
• His seminal work, carried out over the past decade, concerns tracking clones in human cancers as tumors grow.
  — Siddhartha Mukherjee, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Superman, of course, was the title of the seminal 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve and directed by Richard Donner.
  — Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
• To this day it is considered a seminal work, one that scholars now refer to in looking for lessons to apply to cyberwarfare.
  — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• The seminal book on the choice not to have children is called Shallow, Selfish and Self-Absorbed, which echoes the criticism directed at childfree women.
  — Clare Egan, Longreads, 10 Aug. 2023
• The foundation for the play is DeRogatis’ seminal Bangs book, the first biography ever written about a rock critic.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Dec. 2023
• That might explain why Vail’s life story and his relationship with the seminal surf band are being made into a docuseries.
  — Joe Rubin, Sacramento Bee, 27 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024