How to Use sui generis in a Sentence

sui generis

adjective
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  • Not to mention the Starman’s own sui generis take on The Funk.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
  • In the spring of 2021, Kyrie is the sui generis, the capo di tutti capi of Boston bad apples.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • Moses Mendelssohn was sui generis, and most of his of children left Judaism.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2012
  • The two cracked beams proved to be sui generis, the problem confined to a single stretch of roof above Fremont Street.
    — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
  • And that is a sign of the feverish M&A marketplace for sui generis IP assets.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
  • The show’s oddball approach was sui generis in its day, and had remained so–until now.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
  • It’s a sui generis cartoon that sprang from a singular mind.
    — Jenna Scherer, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Nonetheless the work is stunningly bizarre, worthy as few things are of the name sui generis.
    — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
  • In the sense that there is no other group of people favored in this manner, the legal status of the BIA is truly sui generis.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
  • But the New York Times is sui generis in American journalism.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • And that, perhaps, is Alice Neel’s best last laugh: nakedly herself, sui generis, and hot in demand up and down the Eastern seaboard.
    — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
  • Chamberlain, on the other hand, is sui generis, which is surely part of her appeal.
    — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
  • Bigelow’s monument was to be his own, ex nihilo and sui generis.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The woodcuts are sui generis, in a mode that can seem, befuddlingly, equidistant from prints and paintings.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • But consider starting with these sui generis surf-and-turf soup dumplings, or xiao long bao, the dumpling style that made Din Tai Fung famous.
    — Mrussell, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Very quickly his job became doing whatever chore was in the offing—a sui generis job he's held for years.
    — Julia Ioffe, GQ, 21 June 2018
  • In fact, the job that Piper invented for herself was completely sui generis.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • The expansion of Europeans during the Age of Discovery to all suitable points across the globe is viewed to a great extent as sui generis.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
  • That’s because of the unstructured, sui generis nature of restaurant menus.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The secret is in unraveling the sui generis of each virtual team.
    — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • There’s a tendency to see Trump and his successful 2016 campaign as sui generis.
    — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
  • So while other candidates may ape his style or tone, Trump remains sui generis.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2023
  • And Steely Dan was nothing if not weird and almost aggressively sui generis.
    — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
  • That’s a lot of short fiction, but Lafferty’s sui generis blend of the surreal and the deadpan funny can be addictive.
    — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
  • Maybe Rivera, the greatest relief pitcher in major-league history, is sui generis for him that regard.
    — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 26 June 2018
  • The heightened visual world is both sui generis and generalized, the town unpinpointed on a map.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2020
  • By that point, Tate’s sui generis brilliance was widely acknowledged in our circles, and still barely touched by others.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • Route 91 was a sui generis attack — a gunman in an offsite hotel perched high above an unsuspecting crowd.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
  • As a high school prospect, Newman was regarded as a sui generis offensive talent, the type of player who can take over a game no matter the opponent.
    — Matthew Giles, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
  • The entire league has benefited from their nous, and from the sui generis brilliance of Manchester City’s coach, Pep Guardiola.
    — 1843, 7 June 2019

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