How to Use monoculture in a Sentence

monoculture

noun
  • There was more of a monoculture.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 2 May 2026
  • And monoculture forests are at greater risk of disease and fire.
    — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Well, a lot of food is made cheaply and from monocultures of corn and wheat and soy.
    — Joe Pinsker, The Atlantic, 25 May 2017
  • The fact is, films, once the lifeblood of our monoculture, no longer unify us.
    — Michael Ashley, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • More than a decade and a half later, this sounds like one of the last gasps of the monoculture.
    — Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 5 July 2026
  • 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
  • So why are monocultures still common?
    — John Parker, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But this monoculture is in its turn vulnerable to blights and what not.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011
  • This one feels even more significant, one of the last gasps of the monoculture.
    — New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025
  • The erosion of the monoculture must make a task like this even more difficult.
    — Mikey O'Connell, HollywoodReporter, 6 Jan. 2026
  • For the good of Hollywood and the rest of us, that monoculture needs to break down.
    — Michael Cieply, Deadline, 14 July 2024
  • The death of the monoculture has felt like a foregone conclusion.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2026
  • Lawns create a monoculture that sustains very few types of fauna.
    — Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, WSJ, 30 July 2021
  • Still, the service is the closest thing the streaming landscape has to a monoculture these days.
    — Vulture, 14 Jan. 2022
  • All this excitement is taking us back to the days of monoculture, baby.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 21 July 2023
  • 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
  • The rich, layered variety of the ecosystem gives way to a bland monoculture.
    — Sonya Bennett-Brandt, WIRED, 22 Dec. 2022
  • But also a certain grandeur, or pomp, that the monoculture used to confer — and sometimes still can.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2025
  • If there is a more waxen emblem of elite monoculture than Joe Biden, none leaps to mind.
    — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 20 Oct. 2020
  • That tension is exactly what all the monoculture talk is reaching for.
    — Maria A. Rodas, The Conversation, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • Modern monocultures were bred for a stable climate that no longer exists.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 2 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • When drought, pests, or forest fires strike, entire monoculture plantations can fail at once.
    — John Parker, The Conversation, 20 Apr. 2026
  • But today 93% of the forest has been stripped of trees, with much of it turned over to monoculture farming.
    — Time, 3 Jan. 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
  • Video games have firmly entered the monoculture, and Sonic is here to lead the parade.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The chip kingdom is unlikely to become a dull monoculture again anytime soon.
    — The Economist, 7 June 2018
  • 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

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