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How to use freshness in a sentence

21 example sentences · noun

Freshness means the state or quality of being fresh. Example: “"You mustn't mind a bit of freshness, so to speak.”

Examples of freshness by meaning

nounThe state or quality of being fresh.

  • the clear freshness of water from a mountain spring

nounImpudence; cheek.

  • "You mustn't mind a bit of freshness, so to speak.1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards...

More sentences with freshness

  • Simplicity in life, simplicity in art, and a dewy freshness over all.2009, Bernfried Nugel, Jerome Meckier, Aldous Huxley Annual, →ISBN, page 23. From the entry dewy
  • Such a child! you'd think first thing, noting her vitalic freshness, her little-girl lack of affectation.1935 January, Mary Watkins Reeves, “Subject: Frances Langford; Object: Matrimony”, in Radio Mirror, volume 3, number 3, New York…. From the entry vitalic
  • It all combines into a result of freshness and comprehensibility that makes Clapper two things: 1.1934, The Quill, page 1041. From the entry titanize
  • Vain Delight must have lost her freshness, and be older and more pinchbeck.1912, Esther Willard Bates, Pageants and Pageantry, page 237. From the entry pinchbeck
  • Its online shop is stocked with all its latest seasonal beers, delivered directly from its 3C coldstore for optimum freshness.2020 October 30, Emily Heward, “Greater Manchester breweries and craft beer bars offering lockdown deliveries”, in Manchester Evening News. From the entry coldstore
  • In keeping with the station's policy of freshness and kidulthood, the boardroom's walls were giant photomurals of Star Wars collectibles.2007, Ian McDonald, Brasyl, page 16. From the entry kidulthood
  • And on the walls, strange paintings, of an exultating colouring, of paradoxical lines, since they showed freshness and an indefinable antiquity.2000, Carlos del Pulgar Sabín, Artists Painters: Regionalism III, page 256. From the entry exultating
  • Smells like newly cut grass from a farmer's sickle seemed so clean and symbolic of the freshness of a “mercied” heart.1997, Gordon MacDonald, The Life God Blesses, →ISBN. From the entry mercied
  • It may be very much a metallic appearance as opposed to the silver freshness of a recently run salmon.1986, Arthur Oglesby, Fly fishing for salmon and sea trout, page 15. From the entry run
  • The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 628. From the entry coolth
  • This accounts for the newslike freshness of his writings.1972, Agnes Domandi Langdon, Modern German literature. From the entry newslike
  • The smell of wall-flower and sweet alyssum rose from the garden, and the inexpressible freshness of the daffodils.1944, Emily Carr, “A Visitor”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry sweet alyssum
  • You have to understand something: Spanish tostado is nothing like a slice of crusty American carbohydrates pulled from a plastic bag and burnt beyond freshness.2013, Jeff Goins, The In-Between: Embracing the Tension Between Now and the Next Big Thing, →ISBN. From the entry tostado
  • Most American fromage blancs are made from whole cow’s milk, are lovely and lightly creamy, and are tantalizing enough in their freshness alone.2012, Kirstin Jackson, “Délice de la Vallée Fromage Blanc, California”, in It’s Not You, It’s Brie: Unwrapping America’s Unique Culture of…. From the entry fromage blanc
  • Bubble-ups are used on Christmas trees to add sparkle and in beer mugs or glasses in displays to give the beer a look of freshness.1985, Stanley M. Ulanoff, Handbook of Sales Promotion, page 562. From the entry bubble-up
  • Or walk into a shop and you will see twelveness associated with whiteness and roundness and, I hope, freshness, in a box of eggs.1932, Ernest Dimnet, What we live by. From the entry twelveness
  • On either side of them, as they glided onwards, the rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable.1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry unsurpassable
  • They all walked down the corridor and the uncarpeted stairs into the odour of cooking cabbage and out into the comparative freshness of the sultry street.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part III, Chapter II, page 274. From the entry uncarpeted
  • The pretty lips pouted awhile but then she glanced up and broke out into a joyous little laugh which had in it all the freshness of a young May morning.1922, James Joyce, chapter 13, in Ulysses. From the entry break out

Meaning of freshness

  1. noun The state or quality of being fresh.
  2. noun Impudence; cheek.

Full definition of freshness

Questions about freshness in a sentence

How do you use freshness in a sentence?
Freshness is used as a noun. For example: “"You mustn't mind a bit of freshness, so to speak.”
What is a short sentence with freshness?
“This accounts for the newslike freshness of his writings.”
What does freshness mean?
Freshness means the state or quality of being fresh.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: freshness (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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