seminal
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Wall panels remind us of the Townshend Acts, the Tea Act and the Boston Massacre, all seminal events that led the Colonies to eventually break away from Britain.
I know that “Hamlet” is such a seminal text in both your personal life and in your career.
From Los Angeles Times
Reiner’s seminal film “When Harry Met Sally” is full of them — beginnings and endings, false starts and full stops.
From Salon
They do discourage unnecessary treatments, as a seminal Rand Corp. study found in 1981.
From Los Angeles Times
Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
