Example sentences for: novelty

How can you use “novelty” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When the novelty had worn off, this immensely gifted writer experienced isolation and hardship, and finally became insane, spending most of his life in an institution.

  • If he were a white Republican, and thus less of a novelty, the press would portray him more directly as a fanatic.

  • The novelty here is that selection on one locus depends on the history of gene frequencies at the other, “niche construction”, locus.

  • ("Picasso was born in 1881," notes James Fenton in the New York Review of Books . "To accuse a man of cowardice for not having joined up in 1939 when he was in his late fifties strikes me as a complete novelty, and it would have been a novelty to those Allied soldiers who, on the liberation of Paris, flocked to Picasso's studio as a place of pilgrimage."

  • The result is that when dictionaries are discussed in the press, only the most superficial issues are given attention--the novelty of the new words entered, the number of usage notes, the number of illustrations.


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