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How to use originality in a sentence

29 example sentences · noun

Originality means the quality of being original or novel. Example: “The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.”

Examples of originality by meaning

nounThe quality of being original or novel.

  • Bulleid's paper in detail, but it is impossible to refrain from an expression of admiration at the originality that has been packed into this outstanding design.1946 March and April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 105–106

nounThe capacity to think independently or be inventive.

  • Originality may be the capacity to look at the same facts and see new explanations.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 132
  • This story of how American originality lost its way is arresting and well told.2025 March 18, Samuel Moyn, “Can Democrats Learn to Dream Big Again?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Mar...

nounThe original state or condition of a thing.

  • BBMP evicted more than 70 of them and restored to its originality.2024 October 12, @bykarthikreddy, Twitter

More sentences with originality

  • The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.From the entry dazzle
  • Zoom just isn't quite as good as it wants to be de facto originality.2015 October 1, Adam Charles, “Zoom is Too Ambitiously High-concept for Its Own Good”, in Film School Rejects, archived from the original…. From the entry high-concept
  • Firstness (in-itselfness, originality) helps to explain logico-cognitive processes and therefore, at once, the formation of signs.2012, Susan Petrilli, Expression and Interpretation in Language, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 140. From the entry firstness
  • It is essential that we maintain focus on originality as an ethical issue.2010, Scott Beattie, Tonia Walden, The Law Workbook, page 102. From the entry remix
  • Stands out brightly above other thrillers for originality, ingenuity, local color and unputdownableness.2009, David Downie, quoting Barbara Bray, Paris City of Night: A Novel of Suspense, Skokie, Ill.: MEP, →ISBN, praise page. From the entry unputdownableness
  • Now, the concept of what I am preaching is to seek out originality—in your own style.2008, Robin Brown, Jason Boyd, Country Living A Bit of Velvet and a Dash of Lace. From the entry Victoriental
  • This, once again, is the art of introspection and stubborn, self-pleasing originality.2005, The Guardian, editorial, 6 Oct 2005. From the entry self-pleasing
  • What those first games had though, which Licence To Kill doesn't, is a reasonable level of originality.1990 December, Jonathan Davies, “The YS Complete Guide to Film and TV Licences”, in Your Sinclair, number 60. From the entry multiloader
  • Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology.1986 March 23, Harold Bloom, “Freud, the Greatest Modern Writer”, in New York Times. From the entry agon
  • The display and garnishing of the sashimi is an important testing ground for the chef’s artistic originality.1977, Thomas Hoover, “Private Zen: Flowers and Food”, in Zen Culture, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →ISBN, part III (The Rise of Popular…. From the entry sashimi
  • But we have not yet reached the height from which we may appreciate his originality and “un-understandableness.”1910, The Book-plate Booklet, page 36. From the entry un-understandableness
  • What they lacked in originality, they made up in emphasis.2012, Theodore Dalrymple, The Wilder Shores of Marx: Journeys in a Vanishing World. From the entry claque
  • A pixeled image should be judged by the skills and originality in the picture, not by the motive.2000, Jerker Olofsson, “What to do about rippers....?”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.demos (Usenet). From the entry rip
  • As a result, much of twentieth-century metalsmithing has relied on surface enrichment rather than formal development for its originality.1978, Heikki Seppä, Form Emphasis for Metalsmiths, [Kent, Oh.]: Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 1. From the entry formal
  • They bespeak a readiness to be cowed in return for a stall in the Establishment barn; at whatever cost in originality.1973, Nelson Algren, “Hand in Hand Through the Greenery”, in The Last Carousel,, New York: Seven Stories Press, page 76. From the entry coltishness
  • They merely are evils consequent upon the originality of parents.1931, The New Mexico Quarterly, page 195. From the entry dutch date
  • In the end, one could say with minimal originality, but considerable accuracy, that Bill Simmons simply flew too close to the sun.2015 May 9, James Andrew Miller, “Inside the Shocking, Abrupt Divorce of Bill Simmons and ESPN”, in Vanity Fair, archived from the…. From the entry miscalculate
  • But originality in war does, and slave- owning nations, having time to think, are likely to be more shrewd in policy, and more crafty in strategy.2010, Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics, →ISBN, page 73. From the entry after-cost
  • He sometimes paid Descartes the backhanded compliment—backhanded because it detracted from the Frenchman's much-vaunted originality— of suggesting that his major achievement was to restore the study of Plato.2006, Stuart Brown, N. J. Fox, Historical Dictionary of Leibniz's Philosophy, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry backhanded
  • Kenny's customer-friendly manner and originality in preparing confectionaries in The Mercantile soda fountain attracted more sales, locals came and lingered, youngfolk occupied the counter stools while parents shopped.2005, John R. Downes, Orphans Song, →ISBN. From the entry youngfolk
  • The only possible originality advertising could claim is in technique, and even then this is doubtful; certainly never in content, which consists entirely in pseudo-speech, Orwellian non-speak.2005, Armand Mattelart, Advertising International. From the entry nonspeak
  • The National Air Space Museum in Washington acquired Raquel Forner's "The Return of the Moonnaut", chosen because of the artist's originality in vizualizing man's conquests in the outer space.1975, Galería Wildenstein, Art in the Argentine, Digitized edition, published 2008. From the entry moonnaut
  • She would have an outlandish name, either because her equally eccentric parents had labelled her with it or—more likely—she had adopted it herself on the grounds of originality.1971, Ruth Rendell, No More Dying Then, Random House, published 2009, →ISBN, page 35. From the entry gemma
  • Two recent examples of the so-called originality and unconventionality of youth are notorious, namely, “jazz music” and “dutch dates.” And neither of these is due directly to youth.1931, The New Mexico Quarterly, page 195. From the entry dutch date
  • The illustrations to Dr Syntax's Hudibrastic poem on Napoleon have some originality to recommend them as a starting-point for the student of Cruikshank as a delineator of historical subjects.1908, Wilfrid Hugh Chesson, George Cruikshank, pages 71–72. From the entry hudibrastic

Meaning of originality

  1. noun The quality of being original or novel.
  2. noun The capacity to think independently or be inventive.
  3. noun Something original.

Full definition of originality

Questions about originality in a sentence

How do you use originality in a sentence?
Originality is used as a noun. For example: “The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.”
What is a short sentence with originality?
“The delegates were dazzled by the originality of his arguments.”
What does originality mean?
Originality means the quality of being original or novel.

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