How to Use the same in a Sentence

the same

noun
  • The two unite for the same cause.
    — Nick Romano, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of years in the same league.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
  • But not all eclipse views are the same.
    — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Kingsnorth leaves us in much the same place.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • Much of this works the same way in dogs.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The gift shop is still the same, though.
    — Bud Kennedy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Sep. 2025
  • But, at the same time, costs have been passed down.
    — ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
  • And Barnes feels the same way about him.
    — CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
  • What songs from the past are light and deep at the same time?
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Her life will never be the same.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Those are not always the same goal.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • The baristas had felt the same.
    — Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Kids often go through the same shift.
    — Jonathan Carone, Parents, 13 Jan. 2026
  • Would the book have the same hairpin turn?
    — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Those bets cash the same as any other.
    — David Troy Outkick, FOXNews.com, 6 June 2026
  • Much of it works the same way in people.
    — Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
  • Like, no one year is going to be the same.
    — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
  • This one’s a head-scratcher all the same.
    — Parker Gabriel, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This is not about two women in the same role.
    — Jann Blackstone, Boston Herald, 31 May 2026
  • There have never been two ties in the same decade.
    — Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That being said, like, still the same stuff.
    — Kansas City Star, 30 May 2026
  • The Celtics want the same, Stevens said.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, other costs are on track to go up.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • On the same land where his father had been born and grown up.
    — Andrew Carter, Chicago Tribune, 5 July 2026
  • The world’s top two economies have been the same for 10 years.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 2 May 2026
  • To start, the purse comes with two straps, both made from the same durable leather.
    — Rachel Trujillo, PEOPLE, 9 May 2026
  • This first hour flies by; the same is not true of the second.
    — Radhika Seth, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Our brisket comes in the same as a butcher would get it, untrimmed.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 14 Jan. 2026
  • The figure was the same in June.
    — Susan Tompor, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Howard Lutnick should do the same.
    — NBC news, 1 Mar. 2026

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