Definition: 1. Any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning. 2. A remarkable development.
Use 'phenomenon' in a sentence:
1. But perhaps this phenomenon was most striking in the case of the railroads.
2. As I said, this phenomenon refers to adults not being able to remember childhood incidents.
3. One way out of this may be a second curious physical phenomenon—the thermoelectric effect.
4. Each of the eight chapters in this book illustrates this phenomenon.
5. This is a natural phenomenon that happens about once a century.
6. Climate scientists describe the phenomenon as stunning.
7. We also see this "fill-in" phenomenon with perception.
8. As human beings, we're primed to compare ourselves to each other in what is an anxiety-inducing phenomenon.
9. Over the past decade, the change blindness phenomenon has been replicated many times.
10. This phenomenon is often referred to as the "first-night-effect".
11. And that's a phenomenon worth talking about.
12. The rogue male is not a twentieth-century phenomenon.
13. The problem is "decision fatigue," a psychological phenomenon that takes a toll on the quality of your choices after a long day of decision making, says Evan Polman, a leading psychologist.
14. This phenomenon raised doubts in people's mind.
15. An eclipse is an interesting phenomenon.
16. What might account for this strange phenomenon?
17. The arts explore the emotive meaning of the same phenomenon.
18. The same phenomenon seems to be happening with aluminum, lead, and nickel.
19. This form of civil disobedience isn't a particularly new phenomenon.
20. That's a phenomenon worth talking about.
21. Climate scientists describe the phenomenon as "stunning".
22. Smell is cultural, hence it is a social and historical phenomenon.
23. Generally speaking, there are several reasons accounting for this phenomenon.
24. The phases of development of any phenomenon are permeated with conflicts.
25. It's a normal phenomenon.
26. In reaction to the phenomenon, some people called for raising the air pollution tax.
27. This phenomenon is not as outrageous as it seems.
28. They see the shift to the right as a worldwide phenomenon.
29. I think this is a phenomenon which calls for our great concern.
30. Tourism in the mass form as we know it today is a distinctly twentieth-century phenomenon.
31. However, smell is not simply a biological and psychological phenomenon.
32. Job-hopping, once a rare phenomenon, is gaining acceptance.
33. The Palace Museum exhibition becomes a cultural phenomenon everywhere it goes.
34. The causes of the phenomenon are still incompletely understood.
35. The imperative mood is a kind of grammatical phenomenon.
36. Some animal species also display this phenomenon.
37. He illustrated the phenomenon with examples.
38. Smell, however, is a highly elusive phenomenon.
39. Globalization is a phenomenon of the 21st century.
40. At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms called phytoplankton.
41. It's an interesting scientific phenomenon, but of no practical use whatever.
42. No historical phenomenon is a mere repetition of the past.
