How to Use universality in a Sentence

universality

noun
  • There’s a universality to these scenes of the small rites of death.
    — Washington Post, 16 July 2021
  • That just says a lot about that the universality of that love story.
    — John Benson, cleveland, 6 May 2021
  • Now researchers have a way to turn that universality on and off.
    — Quanta Magazine, 31 July 2019
  • Yet the fate of universality resides not in the hands of those who betray it.
    — Agnès Callamard, Foreign Affairs, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The universality among the new batch, as usual, was the quest for more playing time.
    — G Smith, NOLA.com, 2 Sep. 2020
  • And that universality is the saving grace of this Fringe show.
    — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 14 May 2018
  • And universality — that's the real goal of art, no?
    — Glen Weldon, NPR, 10 May 2026
  • Whether this is proof of universality is a matter of opinion.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Her work is intimate, but with a universality that will tear down walls around even the most jaded of hearts.
    — cleveland.com, 24 Jan. 2018
  • The album was a bid for universality; it was received as a self-portrait.
    — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • One part of that universality seems to be the difference between what’s said and what’s meant.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 5 Mar. 2018
  • There’s both a specificity to the time and a universality to the artistic process.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2025
  • That universality is what made the theme of sports such an easy choice for Crystal Bridges.
    — Devin Robertson, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2025
  • More sleep, better sleep, classier sleep—in the process, the need for rest loses ever more of its universality.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2023
  • That big concept revered the universality of those dead or alive but forever lifelike in a print.
    — Michelle Orange, Harper's Magazine, 12 Dec. 2023
  • In any case, universality is key to the charm of Barrera’s subject.
    — Lidija Haas, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020
  • The universality of that writing has made it to certain circles that decide on these things.
    — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Most of the album’s songs revolve around love, and have a similar strain of universality in their themes.
    — Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader, 8 Feb. 2018
  • The universality of these themes here that August is talking about.
    — H. Alan Scott, Newsweek, 20 Nov. 2024
  • But their sounds also contained a shout-along universality.
    — Brendan Hay, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2026
  • That's the thing that sort of prevented me from total universality (laughs).
    — Ron Hart, Billboard, 24 May 2018
  • Reflecting back on the films she’s been in over the years, Lopez sees a universality to the best kinds of stories.
    — Matt Minton, Variety, 17 Dec. 2024
  • There’s a universality to it that is accessible to a lot of people.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • The easy response would be to offer a message of comity and universality.
    — Andrew Yang, CNN, 3 Oct. 2021
  • But the heart of the documentary’s message has to do with the film’s universality.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 24 May 2022
  • Plus, Bentley and others have been struck by the universality of the story.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Our motto was the specificity would lend to the universality.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 23 Apr. 2021
  • That dual meaning gave it a strange universality.
    — Ryan Brennan april 8, Kansas City Star, 8 Apr. 2026
  • The bun’s long history lends the style a universality that seems almost pan-racial — gathered from afar, pulled into one.
    — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 5 Dec. 2023
  • At its purest level, football’s appeal lies in its universality.
    — Oliver Kay, New York Times, 11 June 2026

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