Example sentences for: universality

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

  • The lingua franca of commercial America has done what Esperanto could not: achieve universality.

  • Noah Jonathan Jacobs speaks about “the universality of linguistic chauvinism”:

  • The present Canadian Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, because of his tendency to change his public position on such things as the universality of social programs, is widely known as Lyin'-Brian . In the 1970s, Prime Minister Trudeau was overheard using the f-word in the House of Commons, but when asked about it later, he claimed that what he had said was fuddle-duddle . The country was generally amused (though not deceived) by this humorous explanation.

  • "It uses the moral and historical grandeur of a world war to promote its cranky local obsessions to a level of universality and interest that they do not deserve."

  • One of the most readable of these articles is Russell E. Brown's paper on Anna Seghers' Revolt of the Fishers, in which he shows how the author establishes a certain universality for the uprising: accordingly, the names can be attributed to no specific place or time.


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