Sentence examples for a formative time from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a formative time" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a period in someone's life that significantly shapes their development or character.
Example: "During my college years, I experienced a formative time that influenced my career choices and personal values."
Alternatives: "a crucial period" or "a pivotal moment".

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Magazines formed my experiences because they existed at a formative time for me.

It was a formative time for me.

But the earlier memories, made at a formative time, have never really left me.

Assuredly, Suzanne Lenglen was on a cloud by herself, but women's tennis was really in a formative time then.

What, I wondered, would long immersion in such a society do, at a formative time in a young researcher's development?

"Antioch was a formative time for her," said Peg Johnston of Binghamton, N.Y., Ms. VanDeBogart's cousin and the co-executor of her estate.

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"It's an amazing opportunity to reach girls at a really formative time in their lives," says Muller.

"That's a pretty formative time.

"Looking back on it, it was a really formative time for all of us.

People read him at a really formative time in their lives.

That was "a very formative time for me," he said, and the two bonded in several ways in the three years that they knew each other, with the older man giving votes of confidence — albeit usually implicit — along the way.

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