How to Use particularity in a Sentence

particularity

noun
  • The particularities of the job take some time to get used to.
  • The actors studied all of the particularities of the script.
  • She described the scene with great particularity.
  • Behind the new wave, there was a lot of thinking about the limits of cinema as an art, and about its particularities.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Something that could help give character and particularity to the space.
    — Ted Loos, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2016
  • Eminem is so obsessed with the particularities of rhyme that his songs can lack forward momentum.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2017
  • But with each new release, the particularities of that character change.
    — Tharin Pillay, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Then within that there are particularities to each country in terms of altitude and climate.
    — Jessica Yadegaran, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The bears are particularity active right now due to raspberry season in the region.
    — Amanda Jackson, CNN, 20 July 2021
  • Software can respond fluidly to the context and particularity of each human at scale.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 9 Jan. 2026
  • On Friday night, though, Faye was a particular girl with all of her own particularities.
    — Carol Motsinger, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2020
  • Art concerns particularities of human existence framed by the big picture, but the picture has swallowed the frame.
    — Kate Colby october 2, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The particularities of the airline industry play a factor, too.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 June 2024
  • For all the particularities of life in China, its big cities offer a familiar cosmopolitanism.
    — Adam Greenfield, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2018
  • Against these threats Ms Groff sets the particularity of individual lives, love and above all language.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2018
  • But there is little attempt to engage with the particularities of the period or with Sor Juana’s ideas.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 4 June 2023
  • The whole point of the métier, in fact, is to craft beautiful garments that suit individual bodies, with all their particularities.
    — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 12 July 2023
  • This can be a surprising turn in a sentence, a mysterious escalation in form, a particularity of voice.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2021
  • That tension between repetition and particularity is one of the peculiar pleasures of looking at the pictures as a group.
    — Immy Humes, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • But Spain in fact goes to great lengths to preserve and promote its regions’ cultural and political particularity.
    — Natividad Fernández Sola, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Her book was granular on the subject of embalming, devoting much of her manuscript to the gory particularities of the procedure.
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Rather, the particularities of a nation’s royal ‘I do’s’ are shaped by the country’s unique cultural and religious heritage.
    — Bailey Bujnosek, InStyle, 11 Apr. 2026
  • The key issue was that the prosecutor's subpoena to Hubbell lacked particularity.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 24 June 2020
  • On top of that, crypto’s infrastructure for leveraged trading hasn’t evolved to suit the market’s particularities, Chaparro said.
    — Liz Napolitano, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Rat Saw God is all the pride and grit and particularities of geography, but also the shame, too, in certain sociopolitical terms.
    — Maria Sherman, SPIN, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In Biden’s case, the public is responding to the particularities of his presentation and performance.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Under the inventorship test, an inventor can only claim what was conceived with particularity and without the aid of AI.
    — Wen Xie, Forbes.com, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Because of the particularities of the playing surface, grass-court tournaments are less likely than others to be rescheduled later in the season, if and when the tour resumes regular play.
    — Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2020
  • But in the pamphlet that emerged, the particularity of Spain – its history and traditions; the nature of its political scene – often fell by the wayside.
    — Sarah Watling, Time, 13 July 2023
  • The thematic repetition — and the sincere, direct tone in which most are written — can make the essays blur together, through no fault of their own, despite the particularities of each story.
    — Megan Marz, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2020

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