How to Use sameness in a Sentence

sameness

noun
  • There is a sameness to his stories that makes them too predictable.
  • And sameness is the fastest road to mediocrity.
    — Roberta Matuson, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Most systems were built for sameness.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Because there are so many of [these movies], and there’s been a bit of a sameness.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 July 2020
  • That day-to-day sameness forms a sort of bedrock on which the rest of our life relies.
    — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Sep. 2017
  • There are five games remaining to sort out the sameness of it all.
    — David White, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2016
  • 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
  • In this case, it is left to the young to cut through the deadening sameness.
    — Dan Barry, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • There's a sameness in all of us, and there's also a uniqueness to all of us.
    — Jihan Forbes, Allure, 13 Oct. 2017
  • But there are no weekends when days are a Mobius strip of sameness.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 24 Apr. 2020
  • There is a dull sameness to the way these allegations land now.
    — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2020
  • Each attempt to break away from that sameness resulted in more of the same.
    — Dimitar 'mix' Mihov, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • My 3-year-old was used to the sameness of the days and the constancy of our unit.
    — Dianne Gallagher, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
  • There’s a structural sameness to the way a season tends to unfold.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 June 2024
  • Amerie’s singular voice shines like a beacon on a sea of sameness.
    — Gabrielle Bellot, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
  • In the green sameness of late summer, any plant with extra pizzazz stands out.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 21 Aug. 2022
  • By the way, there’s an explanation for the sameness of the deals.
    — Christopher Elliott, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Suddenly, in this endless stretch of sameness, a siren goes off.
    — Carmen Maria MacHado, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
  • All of you lived with relentless sameness, in shrunken worlds.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2021
  • The roots of sameness start long before the festival.
    — Sunita Dhaliwal, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
  • The party is the same every time because the sameness is the whole purpose.
    — David Roth, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2020
  • In this year of unease and upheaval, there was a certain comfort in the sameness.
    — jsonline.com, 18 Dec. 2020
  • And yet, underneath at their core, the sameness of these two men resonated.
    — Natasha Stoynoff, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Given the sheer amount of combat in each game, there can be a feeling of sameness that pervades over time.
    — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Don’t contribute to the sameness that makes a dining scene boring.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019
  • 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
  • There was a dreadful sameness to the team’s Game 5 blowout loss, yes, but the series isn’t over.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 16 May 2025
  • There’s a sameness to the reaction of politicians to mass shootings.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
  • But on the movie side, where David was more involved, there was a certain sameness to every project.
    — Reeves Wiedeman, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026

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