How to Use monoculture in a Sentence

monoculture

noun

• The street had gone from a rich ecosystem to a monoculture.
  — Tom Vanderbilt, Wired, 2 Dec. 2020
• Well, a lot of food is made cheaply and from monocultures of corn and wheat and soy.
  — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
• And monoculture forests are at greater risk of disease and fire.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2021
• Seaweed farms are a far cry from the rows of corn and wheat that make up monoculture farming on land.
  — Chang W. Lee, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• But today 93% of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming.
  — Time, 3 Jan. 2023
• Still, the service is the closest thing the streaming landscape has to a monoculture these days.
  — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2022
• If there is a more waxen emblem of elite monoculture than Joe Biden, none leaps to mind.
  — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
• It’s the cheat code for what was once our country’s defining monoculture.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2022
• The talent hasn’t gone anywhere, but the monoculture—his theme, his muse, and his one true medium—played a nasty trick on us all.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2023
• The rich, layered variety of the ecosystem gives way to a bland monoculture.
  — Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
• Video games have firmly entered the monoculture, and Sonic is here to lead the parade.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
• That has led to a monoculture – where only a few voices, a few faces – are what everyone hears and sees.
  — Yola Robert, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• But this monoculture is in its turn vulnerable to blights and what not.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
• The Super Bowl Halftime Show is one of the last monoculture music events left standing.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 25 Sep. 2022
• Please know, this isn’t a paean about the end of monoculture or how streaming has made everything better—or worse.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2024
• All this excitement is taking us back to the days of monoculture, baby.
  — James Grebey, Vulture, 21 July 2023
• For a city trying to keep its economy from turning into a tech monoculture, that seems like a brain-dead move.
  — Owen Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 19 June 2019
• What all of these cultural dinosaurs are confronting, though rarely head on, is the fact that there is no monoculture anymore.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2021
• Not all coffee farms were monocultures, though, and in some regions, coffee was grown under shade trees.
  — Lesley Evans Ogden, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
• The streaming wars, everything collapsing, the death of the monoculture.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2023
• In a monoculture, one insect or disease could wipe out the majority of your trees. 4.
  — Laura Drummond, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 June 2023
• Lawns create a monoculture that sustains very few types of fauna.
  — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 30 July 2021
• And more than any other late-night host (except maybe Carson, who had the monoculture to back him up), O’Brien was the master of the parasocial relationship.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 25 June 2021
• Elms in the wild, buffered by other species, sometimes fared better, a reminder that nature abhors a monoculture.
  — Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson, Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2022
• Part of what the artists in this show are undermining is the old art historical track that posits this monoculture of excellence in art.
  — Dallas News, 23 June 2022
• Residents can also move away from the monoculture lawn.
  — Guest Columnist/cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• Rows of tidy vineyards can be a beautiful sight, but winemaking regions around the world are becoming more aware of the drawbacks of monoculture on the farm.
  — Jill Barth, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The chip kingdom is unlikely to become a dull monoculture again anytime soon.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• The Funky Pink begonia has the ability to be stand alone in a monoculture basket or container and look dazzling.
  — Norman Winter, sacbee, 6 July 2018
• His Update piece as himself in response to the wave of anti-Asian hate crimes broke through Comedy Twitter and into what’s left of the monoculture, not an easy feat.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 27 May 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024