How to Use novel in a Sentence

novel

1 of 2 noun
  • Why not use those skills for a fun novel?
    — James Folta, Literary Hub, 6 Nov. 2025
  • It was based on a novel of the same name.
    — Rich Heldenfels, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
  • But again, the novel talks about that and our point of view.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 May 2026
  • Soft Launch is her first novel.
    — Literary Hub, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The child at the heart of the novel is an adult when the book opens.
    — Carmen Maria MacHado, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • So the next thing for me is an audio novel.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
  • On one side of it is a fragment of my first novel.
    — Joyce Johnson, New Yorker, 23 May 2026
  • Oh my god, this is not a campus novel!
    — Emma Straub october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • So maybe my novel could be published by one of them.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The line did not appear in the novel.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The first draft of the novel took twenty days.
    — Nina Mesfin, New Yorker, 7 June 2026
  • The five novels below did that for me.
    — Angelina Mazza, Vulture, 19 June 2026
  • Each of those two novels has sold more than a million copies.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2017
  • This event doesn’t occur in the novel at all.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Oct. 2025
  • My novel is about that sea-change and the search for purpose.
    — Literary Hub, 2 June 2026
  • Yeah, the script was such a fresh, novel take on horror.
    — Peter Larsen, Daily News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • But setting up the plot of a novel turned out to be the easy part.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
  • The slow-flashing strobe light of this novel makes that clear.
    — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
  • Sending a text as long as a novel − too much, too soon.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 10 Apr. 2026
  • To catch the spy, agents set up a sting worthy of a crime novel.
    — CBS News, 28 May 2017
  • The two went through the novel, guessing at how to say words aloud.
    — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
  • Both of those novels are research-based.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Meg is the author of more than a dozen novels for adults and young adults.
    — Marie Milano, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2019
  • Well, the novel is of course at the centre of our world–our north star.
    — Caroline Reilly, Forbes.com, 14 June 2026
  • The theme of his children's novel is that too much screen time is a bad thing.
    — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
  • No, the novel plays with language.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Those may sound like themes more fit for a novel or an art film than a rock album.
    — Damon Linker, TheWeek, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Some went on to lead lives that are the stuff of novels, and others came to sad ends.
    — The Aegis, 8 May 2017
  • And yet the value of a novel isn’t only in its prose.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The novel is about a band coming of age in a town that has a ban on rock ‘n’ roll.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Oct. 2025

novel

2 of 2 adjective
  • She has suggested a novel approach to the problem.
  • Handheld computers are novel devices.
  • Asian swamp eels are novel hunters, too.
    — Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Even the fourth-wall breaks no longer feel novel.
    — Olivia Crandall, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
  • And that’s kind of a neat, novel idea that could come out of it.
    — Richard Sima, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2019
  • So that was novel, in and of itself.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
  • Now a small new study reports progress with a novel method.
    — Elizabeth Cooney, STAT, 27 May 2026
  • What is novel is the moral framing.
    — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • This was a novel predator for them.
    — Michael H Gavshon, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Nothing new or novel about that.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Mercury News, 8 Nov. 2025
  • His role on Monday was a novel one.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
  • And when the next novel pathogen emerges — not if, when — doctors will be at a loss.
    — Robert B. Shpiner, STAT, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Porsche may have come up with a novel way of keeping the stick shift around awhile longer.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 18 Mar. 2026
  • Merck noted the pill works in a novel way.
    — Ed Silverman, STAT, 7 Apr. 2026
  • This novel approach is more than just a visual trick.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 29 Mar. 2026
  • The term, which refers to a whole season of sorrow, is not novel.
    — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
  • Activists in the city have been pushing back against the cars in a novel way.
    — Simmone Shah, Time, 11 July 2023
  • This idea is not novel, but has been put on a firmer footing than before.
    — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In recent years, old bank notes, straws of wheat, and old books have been used in novel ways.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 28 May 2026
  • The idea is to make the ordinary feel novel.
    — Mark Travers, CNBC, 7 Sep. 2025
  • There’s nothing novel about male sports fans taking off their shirts at a game.
    — Justin Williams, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Though the research is novel, the findings are not.
    — Matt Fleming, Oc Register, 26 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe this novel thing was a terrible idea.
    — Hallie Cantor, PEOPLE, 7 Apr. 2026
  • That isn't to say scouts and coaches haven't found novel ways to dull some of his impact.
    — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 17 Dec. 2025
  • This approach is not novel in spirit.
    — Nicolas S. Rohatyn, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Looking for a novel way to enjoy the flavor of key limes?
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 23 May 2026
  • The phrase itself isn’t a novel concept.
    — Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The phrase itself isn’t a novel concept.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • What was novel was what happened thereafter.
    — Evan Webeck, Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2025
  • It's been almost a year since the novel coronavirus knocked the league for a loop.
    — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2021

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