How to Use crucible in a Sentence

crucible

noun
  • He's ready to face the crucible of the Olympics.
  • His character was formed in the crucible of war.
  • Most leaders hide their crucibles.
    — Ed Brzychcy, Forbes.com, 20 Feb. 2026
  • After the last pour finished, the crucible was set aside to cool.
    — Angella D’avignon, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2024
  • And the crucible of what kind of waves this team leaves for its successors.
    — Brian Robin, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025
  • My left hand is outstretched with a mug of tea; my right cradles a crucible of crunch.
    — Stephen Lurie, Bon Appétit, 4 June 2021
  • But pressure can also be a crucible.
    — Cat Ward, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Matt Freese is the latest to be thrown into that crucible.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2026
  • The plane seat is my crucible — and the most difficult part of every trip.
    — Shelby Grad, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • They're played under a crucible of pressure in the spotlight of the world.
    — Joe Kozlowski, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • Getting to the crucible of change can really be helped through plant medicine.
    — David Moin, WWD, 14 June 2024
  • From that crucible emerged a unique talent, adept at the pastoral origins of the game.
    — Chad Jennings, The Athletic, 22 Jan. 2025
  • And the crucible of Kira’s birth inflamed me.
    — Jimmy Wales, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Dixon had been making pencils on the side on a small scale even when crucibles made up most of his business.
    — Jonathan Schifman, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2016
  • The recording studio as the crucible of creative dreams figures in a lot of plays and movies.
    — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • And today, the whole thing is playing out in the white-hot crucible of social media.
    — Daniel Lee, National Review, 2 Oct. 2019
  • Drones The Ukraine war has been a crucible for drone advancement.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • This was in South Wales, which is very much a crucible of the labor movement.
    — Eric Johnson, Vox, 8 July 2019
  • There’s no crucible more scrutinized in the sport than the Olympic Games.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2026
  • And indeed, viewers watch as each of the movie’s principals goes through a crucible of some kind.
    — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 7 Sep. 2017
  • New ideas are born in the crucible of this constructive disorder.
    — Time, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The moral life, writes Murdoch, is not about self-mastery in the crucible of moral struggle.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • Yet even in the crucible that was 1968, cooler heads prevailed.
    — Kevin Baker, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Some memoirs look deeply inward, examining how the self is formed in the crucible of the world.
    — Kate Tuttle, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019
  • Far from being a mere flaw, hypocrisy is the crucible in which ideals and reality collide.
    — Shadi Hamid, Time, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Isabella, forged in this crucible of gossip and glamour, went on to live an eventful life of her own.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • The budget has turned into its annual crucible, putting a lot on the line for Marten.
    — Michael Smolens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 June 2017
  • While a couple of those games were against minnows, his last three were in the Big 12 crucible.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The second year of a CEO’s tenure is a crucible.
    — Ty Wiggins, Harvard Business Review, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Trump enters the crucible of the public hearings largely alone — by his own design.
    — Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019

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