How to Use oneness in a Sentence

oneness

noun
  • And this was the oneness that linked man to man, in life or death.
    Gene Seymour, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • Ego death, a sense of oneness with the universe, a release from the illusion of the self.
    Natan Ponieman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Thank you for being a fan, and your oneness, and your caring.
    Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The visual evokes a sense of peace and oneness with nature and each other.
    Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Look through your abode for twoness instead of oneness.
    Charli Penn, Essence, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God.
    Omar Akour, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Just as Marcus’s paean to oneness, law, and order didn’t, don’t, and will never get it.
    Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a certain oneness that comes with getting lost among a sea of sweaty beings.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 June 2021
  • The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God in Islam.
    Ahmed Hatem, The Seattle Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God in Islam.
    Omar Akour and Ahmed Hatem, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Our families, our work, our hearts and minds and days and nights were blissful in their oneness, for the next two decades, until his death.
    Ann Druyan, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
  • The runner’s high transported me to a Buddhist aware- ness of the oneness of everything.
    Brodie Ramin, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2021
  • She’s been known to veer into conversational tangents about the oneness of her body, mind, and the Earth.
    Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The connection to the divine isn’t a far away place, but rather a oneness that is always with us, a portal that can be accessed at any time.
    Coastmag, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • But since the start of the pandemic, togetherness and oneness have been public health threats.
    Jay Patel, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • And then Tekiyah gedolah, the final long note, that refers to a oneness, a total unity coming together.
    The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Still, there were signs that this feeling of oneness would not remain forever.
    Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The oneness is also integral to the paintings’ defining idea.
    Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • You’re invited to drop by downtown El Dorado to become part of the art, and celebrate the oneness of mankind.
    Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2020
  • This revered sacrament of Communion is meant to signify what the word means: with oneness, with unity.
    Father Edward Beck, CNN, 19 June 2021
  • This sense of oneness with nature is paramount to the Mona Lisa—another crucial feature that brings this work very close to my own concerns.
    Mark Seliger, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2017
  • In less than a decade, McAfee ascended to yoga teacher, leading workshops on peace, light, truth and oneness.
    Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
  • Nor was it religious insight, or a feeling of oneness with all humankind.
    Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Yo-Yo Ma expresses a oneness between the music, the instrument and the human being that connects all of it.
    Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • Mystics and meditators aim for this sense of oneness with the universe, but Lightman’s just happened.
    Michael Shermer, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • What connects those words is a feeling of oneness with another person or being, Fiske says.
    Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • And Muslim Americans may disagree on the solidity and the nature of that oneness.
    John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The zombie kiss is a grotesque inversion of what Tess seemed to want very badly from Joel: intimacy, closeness, oneness.
    Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In Yellowstone’s world, oneness with nature is a measure of not moral goodness, but a more pragmatic brand of merit.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
  • During the wedding, the couple lit a third candle together using flames from the first two, to celebrate the miracle of oneness.
    New York Times, 12 Sep. 2020

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