Example sentences for: ubiquity

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

  • The sign's ubiquity was a long time coming.

  • Still, this supposed ubiquity of commoditization is difficult to square with one fact: A few large corporations dominate many, if not most, major U.S. industries.

  • However, some of the words he indicates as listed by The Economist in 1986 are not by origin English but French ( hotel, cigarette ) or international ( telephone ). True, they may owe their worldwide currency and ubiquity to the fact that they were part of the body of English word export, but are they really words that originated in English or are they loanwords in English?

  • I think what was funny to contemporary readers was a) the Santa-like ubiquity of Eleanor Roosevelt and b) the unthinkability of a wealthy lady getting her clothes dirty in a dangerous place.

  • It enjoys life not only as an interjection but also as a noun ("The movie's real duh of a raison d'être"-- Village Voice ) and an adjective ("That's so duh you've got to smile"-- Los Angeles Times ). Bummer , one 1960s word that really did get its start in the '60s drug culture, is also proving its hardiness, a testament both to the term's euphony and to the ubiquity of bummers in the world at large.


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