How to Use phenomena in a Sentence

phenomena

noun
  • But more work needs to be done to link the two phenomena.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2020
  • And concern over crime is not a new phenomena for the park.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Oct. 2022
  • So he's seen a lot of ice, and snapped a lot of photos of rarely seen, icy phenomena.
    — Author: Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2018
  • To have not known the cause of the phenomena would have been very disconcerting.
    — Bill Bowden, arkansasonline.com, 18 Feb. 2024
  • But like any celestial phenomena, the darker the skies above, the better the show.
    — Maya Silver, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Way up in the atmosphere above a wildfire, phenomena can grow all the more bizarre.
    — Matt Simon, Wired, 21 Aug. 2020
  • But what if the arrow of time looked at phenomena where entropy changes are small?
    — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • By the late 1990s, the single girl in the city who couldn’t find love became a cultural phenomena.
    — Allison Schrager, Quartz, 23 July 2019
  • These same phenomena are a big part of the Tesla stock story.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Colfer, who had recently wrapped Glee’s phenomena of a second season, was at the right place at the right time for SNL to think of him for the cameo.
    — Devon Ivie, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Initially, in 2009, the idea was to look at the phenomena of people changing their lives.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Oct. 2022
  • Some phenomena are more well-known than others, though, and some are harder to catch.
    — Kathleen Rellihan, Outside Online, 14 May 2022
  • Bolsonaro is quick to downplay the phenomena of fire events.
    — Cnn's Camilo Rocha, CNN, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Those phenomena could alter the moon's color at any point, though, not just during the blue moon.
    — Miriam Fauzia, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2021
  • First among them is the expansion of human knowledge of the Earth and phenomena in the atmosphere and space.
    — Lori Garver, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2021
  • The luxury slump has become one of the biggest phenomena of a tight 2023.
    — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 20 Dec. 2023
  • It’s best viewed during a full moon, but the phenomena will continue through much of 2025.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • In the year and a half since, Tiziana’s fame, like all viral phenomena, has finally begun to fade.
    — Rossalyn Warren, The Atlantic, 16 May 2018
  • They were beloved among the public who believed in such phenomena.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 2 June 2021
  • These phenomena are not seen as having anything like the impact of white men.
    — Chandran Nair, Time, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Other phenomena such as ice balls, ice jams, and even ice bites can also be seen in and along the Great Lakes during winter months.
    — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 22 Jan. 2022
  • The Genesee Theatre in Waukegan opened in 1927 and has been the subject of ghost sightings and unexplained phenomena.
    — Annie Alleman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Sep. 2022
  • The phenomena occurs because male and queen ants leave their colonies to mate when conditions are just right.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN, 18 July 2019
  • That makes for some unusual light phenomena; the sun doesn’t set in summer or rise in winter.
    — Laura Mallonee, WIRED, 8 June 2018
  • This is in line with the phenomena of self-care and self-preservation as opposed to selfishness.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Here in Orlando, before, during and after the game, the buzz from us media types was whether Week 0 was a phenomena or here to stay.
    — Ross Dellenger, SI.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Many fret that the Large Hadron Collider has yet to turn up any new phenomena, giving them nothing to work with to derive the next level of laws.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2019
  • Minecraft, the building and creation game based on blocks, is one of the biggest gaming phenomena of the early 21st century.
    — Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The phenomena appears to be limited to a single neighborhood in Richmond, about 10 miles north of Oakland.
    — David Matthews, New York Daily News, 13 May 2025
  • Though this is not the first time lightning has been seen or photographed from space, McClain's photo is stunning example of how natural phenomena can create unique art, especially when viewed from a different angle.
    — Robert Z. Pearlman, Space.com, 23 May 2025

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