formative
Example Sentences
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But the whole time I wanted to go, “Get out of here! Go, go! This is formative years.”
From Los Angeles Times
For many young Lebanese caught in the crossfire, their formative years have been jeopardised by repeated conflicts and crises.
From Barron's
The second-tier guardsmen rising in rank had their formative experiences in Syria, where they saw the swift collapse of what took decades to build.
That was really formative and evolved my world.
From Los Angeles Times
The decades immediately before the so-called Golden Age of Athens, in the mid-fifth century B.C., were a formative time for the development of democracy.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
