How to Use sameness in a Sentence
sameness
noun- There is a sameness to his stories that makes them too predictable.
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For some, the sameness of the ride could have felt stifling.
—Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2023
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My 3-year-old was used to the sameness of the days and the constancy of our unit.
—Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
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Perhaps God knows what awaits us at the end of the path of sameness.
—Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
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The stories in the show are many, but with a certain sameness in the end.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
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In this case, it is left to the young to cut through the deadening sameness.
—Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
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That day-to-day sameness forms a sort of bedrock on which the rest of our life relies.
—Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2017
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Another, though, is that the sameness is part of the satire.
—Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2021
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Because there are so many of [these movies], and there’s been a bit of a sameness.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
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By the way, there’s an explanation for the sameness of the deals.
—Christopher Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
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There's a sameness in all of us, and there's also a uniqueness to all of us.
—Jihan Forbes, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
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The sameness of it all: one of the hallmarks of pornography.
—Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
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The party is the same every time because the sameness is the whole purpose.
—David Roth, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
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But there are no weekends when days are a Mobius strip of sameness.
—Steven Levy, Wired, 24 Apr. 2020
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This sameness proves, over time, to be difficult to bear.
—Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
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In this year of unease and upheaval, there was a certain comfort in the sameness.
—jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2020
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There is a dull sameness to the way these allegations land now.
—Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
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At the same time, there’s a structural sameness that saps the sense of anything-can-happen surprise.
—Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Jan. 2023
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In the green sameness of late summer, any plant with extra pizzazz stands out.
—Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
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There’s a sameness to the reaction of politicians to mass shootings.
—Peter King, SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
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So there is a lot of sameness from Ohio State’s offensive system and what is in place here at Texas.
—Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 23 Feb. 2020
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Simone Leigh is another example of an artist who’s hyped to the ends of the earth, but there’s a sameness to her.
—Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2021
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Gemini thrives on change and can’t stand too much sameness.
—Allure, 19 July 2018
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This has been a long run of sameness many of us have experienced this past month or more, quarantined from the rest of the world.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
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Rather than boring me, the sameness freed me from the constant worry over what was going to happen next.
—The Editors, Outside Online, 1 Oct. 2020
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His delivery has a sameness from song to song, and there's not going to be a lot of octave-stretching.
—Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 4 May 2018
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But War, set two years after Dawn, has a disheartening sameness to it and none of the visual jolt of Reeves’s last film.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 12 July 2017
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The preciousness, even fragility, of absolute sameness came clear to me in a piece by Roni Horn.
—Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2022
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There are extra points for emotional nuance, and that keeps III from drowning in an ocean of sameness.
—Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 1 June 2024
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Reaction on social media and traditional media dings MLB for the sameness of the menus.
—Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2024
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