How to Use sui generis in a Sentence

sui generis

adjective
  • The results were jolting and sui generis.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2025
  • And, what the heck is the matter of being sui generis anyway?
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 5 Jan. 2025
  • There is a good case to be made, therefore, that each of these country-level crises is sui generis.
    — Shantayanan Devarajan, Foreign Affairs, 4 Aug. 2022
  • That seems to be the essence of appreciating the sui generis charms of this place.
    — Rob Crossan, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Mar. 2026
  • The show’s oddball approach was sui generis in its day, and had remained so–until now.
    — Daniel D'addario, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Moses Mendelssohn was sui generis, and most of his of children left Judaism.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2012
  • Bigelow’s monument was to be his own, ex nihilo and sui generis.
    — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Nonetheless the work is stunningly bizarre, worthy as few things are of the name sui generis.
    — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Not to mention the Starman’s own sui generis take on The Funk.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Chamberlain, on the other hand, is sui generis, which is surely part of her appeal.
    — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
  • At the time, the two legal showdowns seemed so sui generis bizarro that they were treated like cultural anomalies.
    — David Friend, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
  • These are the sorts of things that occur in the singular novels of Charles Portis. Portis, who died in 2020 at 86, occupies a sui generis place in American letters.
    — Elizabeth Nelson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • That’s because of the unstructured, sui generis nature of restaurant menus.
    — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
  • The woodcuts are sui generis, in a mode that can seem, befuddlingly, equidistant from prints and paintings.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
  • In fact, the job that Piper invented for herself was completely sui generis.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • The secret is in unraveling the sui generis of each virtual team.
    — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 4 June 2021
  • Dylan, of course, is sui generis, the kind of transcendent cultural avatar who comes along once in a century.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Feb. 2025
  • His photography is truly rare—sui generis.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And Steely Dan was nothing if not weird and almost aggressively sui generis.
    — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
  • People think that this fake news phenomenon is a sui generis invention of the digital age.
    — JSTOR Daily, 16 Oct. 2025
  • No artist is completely original, but time has proven Lady Gaga sui generis.
    — Kristen S. Hé, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2025
  • The heightened visual world is both sui generis and generalized, the town unpinpointed on a map.
    — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2020
  • Route 91 was a sui generis attack — a gunman in an offsite hotel perched high above an unsuspecting crowd.
    — August Brown, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
  • Maybe Rivera, the greatest relief pitcher in major-league history, is sui generis for him that regard.
    — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 26 June 2018
  • Transit system funding mechanisms are sui generis, but the pandemic has taken a razor to lots of them.
    — Aarian Marshall, Wired, 14 Dec. 2020
  • In the spring of 2021, Kyrie is the sui generis, the capo di tutti capi of Boston bad apples.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
  • By that point, Tate’s sui generis brilliance was widely acknowledged in our circles, and still barely touched by others.
    — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
  • And that is a sign of the feverish M&A marketplace for sui generis IP assets.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
  • But the New York Times is sui generis in American journalism.
    — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
  • There is in fact nothing sui generis about Belarus’s nonviolent protests, nor are they rooted in the pandemic.
    — Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020

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