How to Use novelty in a Sentence

novelty

noun
  • Eating shark meat is a novelty to many people.
  • Electric-powered cars are still novelties.
  • By now that sort of novelty has worn off.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
  • This was a novelty and a one-off.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • The novelty of it all hasn't worn off.
    — Julia Moore, PEOPLE, 5 May 2026
  • At first, the medals were a cool, shiny novelty.
    — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 5 Feb. 2026
  • But once the novelty fades, no one will care how a video was made.
    — Victor Riparbelli, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • But the sounds made by glaciers can be used for more than just novelty ice cubes.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • There is novelty of course but the creations are meant to stay.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 1 Apr. 2025
  • At the start of the season, this match looked like a novelty.
    — Jon Arnold, Dallas News, 25 June 2021
  • The idea of sports talk radio was a novelty at the time their show took off.
    — Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • Newness gives us a hit of dopamine, which fades as the novelty wears off.
    — Rainesford Stauffer, The Atlantic, 6 May 2021
  • Some tourists would board purely for the novelty of the route.
    — Anna Noryskiewicz, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • Saraf and Wolf weren’t picked for novelty.
    — C.j. Holmes, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • These sorts of gimmicks and novelties don’t tend to have long shelf lives.
    — Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
  • This adorable novelty pillow is one of those things that’s just plain fun.
    — Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
  • This adorable novelty pillow is one of those things that’s just plain fun.
    — Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This adorable novelty pillow is one of those things that’s just plain fun.
    — Savannah Smith, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Miley is no longer a bonus, a novelty.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Putting ads in space, above cities, may seem like a novelty to some entrepreneurs.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
  • What if time is more of a human novelty than a concept in physics?
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The song also hit at a time when many people still saw rap as a novelty.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2026
  • And candidates who see him as a novelty need to treat him like a threat.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • Zubac’s lone 3 was also a novelty shot, but not a half-court heave.
    — Joe Vardon, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2026
  • But its most memorable use of song has no need for novelty.
    — Justin Chang, New Yorker, 19 June 2026
  • The novelty of life in a construction zone wore off as the weeks rolled on.
    — Joan Elovitz Kazan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022
  • And women, in bare chest novelty tees.
    — Candace Buckner, New York Times, 2 June 2026
  • This is no novelty signing, of course.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The hot dog cannon is no longer just a jumbo-sized novelty gag.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 2 Apr. 2025
  • There's like a novelty factor in there.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026

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