How to Use sameness in a Sentence

sameness

noun
  • There is a sameness to his stories that makes them too predictable.
  • For some, the sameness of the ride could have felt stifling.
    Marianna Cerini, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2023
  • My 3-year-old was used to the sameness of the days and the constancy of our unit.
    Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Perhaps God knows what awaits us at the end of the path of sameness.
    Colby Martin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2023
  • The stories in the show are many, but with a certain sameness in the end.
    BostonGlobe.com, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Another, though, is that the sameness is part of the satire.
    Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Because there are so many of [these movies], and there’s been a bit of a sameness.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
  • By the way, there’s an explanation for the sameness of the deals.
    Christopher Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • The sameness of it all: one of the hallmarks of pornography.
    Sigrid Nunez, The New York Review of Books, 11 June 2020
  • The party is the same every time because the sameness is the whole purpose.
    David Roth, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
  • But there are no weekends when days are a Mobius strip of sameness.
    Steven Levy, Wired, 24 Apr. 2020
  • This sameness proves, over time, to be difficult to bear.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2021
  • In this year of unease and upheaval, there was a certain comfort in the sameness.
    jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • There is a dull sameness to the way these allegations land now.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
  • 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
  • In the green sameness of late summer, any plant with extra pizzazz stands out.
    Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Gemini thrives on change and can’t stand too much sameness.
    Allure, 19 July 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Don’t contribute to the sameness that makes a dining scene boring.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019
  • All of you lived with relentless sameness, in shrunken worlds.
    BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • But even as quality and particulars vary, there is a sameness to a lot of these shows.
    Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Even in the best of years, the days pass in a sort of trudging grey sameness – with a pandemic and without a St. Patrick’s Day parade, this month is feeling even longer.
    Jeanne O'Brien Coffey, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The sameness that defined The Walking Dead for so many years is, blessedly, avoided.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2023
  • There was a time when natives and art critics decried the sameness and pedestrian nature of seascapes and boats, boats, boats.
    James R. Carroll, USA TODAY, 3 June 2019
  • The erasure of languages that Ngũgĩ understood from his prison cell is echoed in the erasure that defines Irvine’s sameness.
    Dw Gibson, The Atlantic, 20 May 2022

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