PHENOMENON in a Sentence

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1. A rainbow is a natural phenomenon.
2. This phenomenon is unique in nature.
3. A phenomenon which is often observable.
4. Koshkarev is a most reassuring phenomenon.
5. Language is a social and cultural phenomenon.

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 Meanings and Examples of PHENOMENON
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phenomenon
 n.  appearance; anything visible, in matter or spirit; extraordinary or very remarkable person, thing, or occurrence
Classic Sentence: (36 in 3 pages)
1  The counter-revolution was involuntarily liberal, in the same manner as, by a corresponding phenomenon, Napoleon was involuntarily revolutionary.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVII—IS WATERLOO TO BE CONSIDERED GOOD?
2  The mountebanks gave out that the tricolored cockade was a unique phenomenon made by God expressly for their menagerie.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE WATER QUESTION AT MONTFERMEIL
3  A phenomenon which is often observable.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC
4  Nothing is more frequent than this phenomenon.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—LUX FACTA EST
5  A phenomenon whence arises ruin and new births.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—ENJOLRAS AND HIS LIEUTENANTS
6  The phenomenon is perpetually returning upon itself.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—FOLIIS AC FRONDIBUS
7  A phenomenon, by the way, of which there is more than one example extant.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE MALICIOUS PLAYFULNESS OF THE WIND
8  For, it must be stated to those who are ignorant of the case, that argot is both a literary phenomenon and a social result.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
9  In the majority of cases, riot proceeds from a material fact; insurrection is always a moral phenomenon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II—THE ROOT OF THE MATTER
10  A phenomenon to which "well drilled" policemen are no strangers.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III—A BURIAL; AN OCCASION TO BE BORN AGAIN
11  Nevertheless, such a phenomenon is rare in Russia, where the tendency is rather to prodigality than to parsimony.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
12  Properly to explain this phenomenon I should need to say a great deal about the ladies themselves, and to describe in the most vivid of colours their social intercourse and spiritual qualities.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
13  For a while she thumped the gates so vigorously as to set all the dogs barking; then the gates stiffly opened, and admitted this unwieldy phenomenon of the road.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
14  Koshkarev is a most reassuring phenomenon.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
15  Prince Bagration and Prince Dolgorukov with their adjutants had come to witness the curious phenomenon of the lights and shouts in the enemy's camp.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII
Example Sentence:
1  Language is a social and cultural phenomenon.
2  It is not possible to observe this phenomenon directly, but its effects can be seen in the rise in global temperatures.
3  A number of theories have been proposed to explain the phenomenon.
4  Scientists have advanced a new theory to explain this phenomenon.
5  This phenomenon, sometimes called wanderlust, may explain why people spend so much time and money on trips to interesting places.
6  A rainbow is a natural phenomenon.
7  This phenomenon is unique in nature.
8  This theory makes sense of an otherwise inexplicable phenomenon.
9  One of businesses of the sociologists is to study the social phenomenon.
10  El Niao is a natural phenomenon, but some are worried that climate change could now be altering the cycle in fundamental ways.
11  In economics, a mirage is a naturally occurring phenomenon in which economic statistics are bent to produce an image of a desired outcome.
12  International terrorism is not just a recent phenomenon.
13  In physics, resonance is the phenomenon of producing large amplitude of vibrations by a small periodic driving force.