How to Use generality in a Sentence

generality

noun

• I noticed the generality of the language he used in discussing his plans.
• He spoke in generalities as he discussed his plans for the future.
• There are generalities about poverty, but well-to-do men have gone on killing sprees.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2017
• With the media, the providers would only talk about the status of outages at a statewide level and in generalities.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
• Allen speaks in generalities about the delay but is candid about not knowing a date.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• These sorts of issues are well known in their generality.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2011
• But aside from those generalities, little can be shared without spoiling the fun -- and the carnage.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 21 June 2017
• But Stone fills in the generalities of Chazelle’s story with a glowing innocence and a beating heart.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2017
• The half-dozen mentions of China and North Korea are couched in generalities, but there are glimpses into what the general thinks of the two nations.
  — Edward Wong, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2016
• Beyond some vague generalities about the types of experiments being conducted on the X-37B, the Air Force has kept mum on the specifics.
  — Wired, 28 Oct. 2019
• All the noise is about football, plus generalities about other sports.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• That’s a generality because there will always be outliers who think things aren’t good enough.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 20 Sep. 2017
• These lines read like lyrics by a self-aggrandizing old man who deals in generalities.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Writing in generalities opens the door for readers to object and ask questions.
  — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• As Turchin notes the beauty of this result is that a rather coarse data set and simple formal model has strong generality.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2013
• The debate is about whether these trends represent the generality.
  — Wired, 30 Nov. 2019
• The direction of the courtroom scenes has the blandly declarative generality of a TV movie cramming its script details in ahead of the next commercial.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2023
• To this day, however, no one has been able to beat the 1/2 level of distribution in the full degree of generality that the Bombieri-Vinogradov theorem achieves.
  — Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• The generality of this theory means that it can be applied to a wide range of examples where gender imbalance is found.
  — Eugenia Cheng, Wired, 25 Aug. 2020
• Asked if he was disappointed in Jones’s sophomore season, the coach spoke more in generalities.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• Not only are the top prospects for the upcoming draft on display, but most of the NFL’s 32 general managers and head coaches will speak with reporters—in complete generalities.
  — Conor Orr, SI.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• Trump, by contrast, continues to speak on the level of generality.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
• Coward, who spoke in generalities because of the unknown circumstances of Robinette’s case, said Robinette could ask to simply pay back his tuition to try to go pro.
  — Nicki Jhabvala, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• During those calls, Joe Biden spoke in generalities and didn't talk business, Archer testified.
  — Brian Bennett, Time, 14 Aug. 2023
• The lack of Amerindian ancestry in the generality is also notable.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012
• Experts say too little or too much mucus can result in illness, but the sweeping generality in this claim is far from accurate.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• Of course, that’s a generality—no group of people is homogeneous.
  — Michele Parmelee, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• Ficenec isn’t just speaking in generalities: last year, researchers from across the country quantified how much land would need to be converted to habitat to save the monarchs — and compared it to how much land is available to do so.
  — Anna Groves, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
• Introduction Over the years, Naber tried several times to prove the conjecture in full generality — for all possible dimensions, without making any of those extra assumptions.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Quanta Magazine, 14 May 2024
• His anti-corporatism is mostly expressed in generalities.
  — Nate Cohn, New York Times, 4 May 2024

Last Updated: 10 Dec 2024