How to Use ness in a Sentence

ness

noun

• Part of the charm of the stag and does is the small town-ness of it all.
  — Shivani Gonzalez, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Greta and Flavia, meanwhile, get down with the busy-ness of the bees in the house.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2023
• There’s a busy-ness in the air this month, especially at work.
  — Kirah Tabourn, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 Sep. 2022
• His one of a kind-ness surrounded us like a suit of armor.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 June 2017
• This feeling of home-ness wasn’t because this new place fit my taste more than the old one had, though that was true.
  — Lauren McBrayer, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2022
• The 10.5-inch screen makes mathematical sense, the bezel-less-ness fits right in with the current trend.
  — David Pierce, WIRED, 2 June 2017
• Much of that safety comes from the complex’s very underground-ness.
  — Sarah Scoles, WIRED, 3 May 2017
• Trump once called Allen Weisselberg a loyal employee and one of the toughest people in the ness.
  — ABC News, 21 Aug. 2022
• How did this one compare to Gene from Omaha in terms of whole-different-show-ness?
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 May 2017
• The focus on the big-ness of it all often obscures questions about if, when and how all of this building will take place, as well as questions about the impact of the plan.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 15 May 2017
• With the mannequin skin and hairless eyebrows there’s almost a sterile-ness to the characters.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 30 Oct. 2020
• But the twee-ness is OK, since this adaptation is pretty good, if also violent and a bit overblown.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
• Fate of the Furious is too eager to please, too concerned with the Fast and Furious-ness of its existence.
  — vanityfair.com, 13 Apr. 2017
• This picture of upside-down Adele above looks pretty normal apart from its upside-down-ness, right?
  — Noelle Devoe, Seventeen, 29 Feb. 2016
• Yes, the tech bro-ness of it all seems to heavily permeate the industry and with that comes a level of gatekeeping.
  — Wagmo, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
• There’s enjoyment in the garlic-forward, creamy dish itself, but there’s also comfort in the routine-ness of it.
  — Christa Sgobba, SELF, 9 Sep. 2022
• That characteristic tightlipped-ness is on full display in the excerpt below, in which Stone outs the identity of the actor who lent Alexa her voice.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 11 May 2021
• That feeling, that general excited-ness, has still yet to fade years later.
  — Ashley Gilly, NOLA.com, 23 May 2017
• Whatever its origins, the new sculpture adds another facet to the profile of Qin-ness: cosmopolitan taste.
  — Holland Cotter, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2017
• That despite all the internet-bro-y-ness that is (rightly) used to malign the crypto faithful, there was something wholesome about the ragtag nerds who were risking their own necks for the greater good.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Nov. 2022
• Feeling the industrial-ness of that field was important.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• But Shyamalan, the writer director of the film, undercuts much of the heavy-handed ness with a nifty sense of humor, producing more laughs than all his other films combined.
  — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Aug. 2022
• All of that stuff is specific and plays on the meta-ness of the show on a lot of levels, but at the end of the day this is a story about Dre and her sister, and events that unfold in ways that are surprising and exhilarating and fun.
  — Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2023
• Several ads question the Pennsylvania-ness of the other.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Because for all the limp forgettable-ness of its second two-thirds, Snatched does deliver Goldie Hawn back into our lives, which is a pretty significant gift.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 10 May 2017
• Setting Volkova’s capsule collection apart from other archive re-issues is, well, the Lotta Volkova–ness of it all.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 9 May 2022
• As the diversity of national beauty pageant winners has increased in the past three decades, so has resistance to the changing picture of American-ness.
  — Asha Rangappa, The Denver Post, 26 May 2017
• But was your essential lemon-ness compromised by your appearance?
  — Bethany Jean Clement, The Seattle Times, 6 June 2017
• Not, like, historically old, but just a general wash of vintage-ness over everything.
  — Madison Feller, Cosmopolitan, 24 May 2017
• The calendar was even more packed than usual this year — and the busy-ness took on a special poignancy — because, after six years at our cozy neighborhood elementary, our daughter and her classmates are moving on to middle school in the fall.
  — Susan Keaton, Naperville Sun, 25 May 2017

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024