How to Use novel in a Sentence

novel

1 of 2 adjective

• She has suggested a novel approach to the problem.
• Handheld computers are novel devices.
• The lessons to be drawn from all of this are not novel.
  — Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2021
• And that’s kind of a neat, novel idea that could come out of it.
  — Richard Sima, Scientific American, 23 Dec. 2019
• Activists in the city have been pushing back against the cars in a novel way.
  — Simmone Shah, Time, 11 July 2023
• By the way, as Silva points out, this is not a novel idea.
  — Javier Hasse, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• The term, which refers to a whole season of sorrow, is not novel.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2021
• And now, a whole new crop of chefs are calling on the powers of the chickpea in novel ways.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2018
• It's been almost a year since the novel coronavirus knocked the league for a loop.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 31 Jan. 2021
• The novel coronavirus will have the final say, of course.
  — oregonlive, 29 June 2020
• This novel approach to end-of-life care ran contrary to laws in all ...
  — Jim Towey, National Review, 22 Oct. 2022
• The film is based on the novel Spaceman of Bohemia by Jaroslav Kalfar.
  — Liza Foreman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• The inspiration for the show was as novel as the show itself.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 17 Apr. 2022
• Yes, the idea of a woman like Lucy at that time being in charge in any way was so novel and unique.
  — Amy Harrity, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2022
• The novel presents gunslinging across a panoramic desert in a new way.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 16 June 2021
• The state began doing its own testing for the novel virus 11 days ago.
  — Stephanie Innes, azcentral, 12 Mar. 2020
• But then reports of cases of the novel coronavirus hit the news.
  — Jackie Mader, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2021
• Fall turned to winter, then spring, and the outside world locked down for the novel coronavirus.
  — Kent Russell, Harper’s Magazine , 25 May 2022
• The idea of a middle ground between the puny shirt and the heavy jacket is not exactly novel.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 21 June 2018
• This idea is not novel, but has been put on a firmer footing than before.
  — The Economist, 22 Mar. 2018
• And just a few weeks later, the world stopped because of a novel coronavirus.
  — Maya Rockeymoore Cummings, Health.com, 12 Oct. 2021
• The week was a novel idea that gained momentum over the century.
  — Cathy M. Rosenthal, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• The novel coronavirus can travel across a room on aerosols or even hover in the air for hours at a time.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 12 June 2022
• The story was about a city whose name few of us had known a few weeks prior, under siege from a novel virus.
  — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2021
• It’s powered by Torula oil, a novel oil that’s made in a lab instead of grown on trees.
  — Erica Smith, ELLE, 5 Apr. 2023
• What’s old is freshly novel for teens and 20-somethings like him.
  — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• Not least among the reasons Wrinkle was so novel and widely read: its hero was a girl.
  — TIME.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• For those who know, beautiful crowds with a bit of a wild side aren’t novel to Tisci.
  — Isiah Magsino, Vogue, 22 Oct. 2021
• The novel design of the Ai Pin, which was made by the start-up Humane, generated buzz when it was unveiled late last year.
  — Brian X. Chen Andri Tambunan, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
• Seeking a deeper insight into dogs’ comprehension of human language, the researchers in this study took a novel approach.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

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novel

2 of 2 noun

• The novel then shifts to the present day, in the spring of 1986.
  — Erin Douglass, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Nov. 2022
• The show is based on the Hugh Howey novel series of the same name.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Oct. 2021
• The series is based on the Tom Wolfe novel of the same name.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 13 July 2022
• But setting up the plot of a novel turned out to be the easy part.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
• The new movie is based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Rumaan Alam.
  — Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
• The two went through the novel, guessing at how to say words aloud.
  — Bryan Marquard, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Nov. 2022
• To catch the spy, agents set up a sting worthy of a crime novel.
  — CBS News, 28 May 2017
• But the film diverges from the novel in one key place: the ending.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 8 Oct. 2022
• In the novel, [Grace and Jonathan] are not nearly this rich.
  — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2020
• Populism is still with us, and the novel is still a good read.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
• The slow-flashing strobe light of this novel makes that clear.
  — Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
• Meg is the author of more than a dozen novels for adults and young adults.
  — Marie Milano, Country Living, 24 Feb. 2019
• Tale novel was based on the real world or came straight from the Bible.
  — Hillary Kelly, Vulture, 28 Apr. 2021
• Some went on to lead lives that are the stuff of novels, and others came to sad ends.
  — The Aegis, 8 May 2017
• The theme of his children's novel is that too much screen time is a bad thing.
  — Rex Nelson, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2020
• Part of the novel’s impact owes to its shifting point of view.
  — Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2023
• The series is based on the acclaimed bestselling novel of the same name.
  — Josie Howell | , al, 14 Apr. 2023
• The novel’s thoughts on fame are among its least inspired.
  — New York Times, 1 Sep. 2021
• The novel reframes that world from a young woman’s point of view.
  — Will Coviello, NOLA.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• While novel, the idea of sleeping in a pub is hardly new.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 17 Oct. 2021
• The novel is unsettling but thrilling, and a classic work that has stood the test of time.
  — Robert English, EW.com, 17 Sep. 2022
• This doesn’t change the fact that the novel is a kind of pastiche of past Western novels.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 11 July 2023
• Some tuck a novel or two into their totes and head out.
  — Talia Richman, baltimoresun.com, 31 Aug. 2019
• There is constant movement both within scenes and in the grand sweep of the novel.
  — Amy Brady, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2022
• Each of those two novels has sold more than a million copies.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2017
• Shirley murmurs, deep in thought about the ending of her novel.
  — Philippa Snow, The New Republic, 12 June 2020
• But a novel workaround might help the states lower their costs.
  — Ed Silverman, STAT, 14 June 2018
• By the final pages, the novel’s full store of frigidity seems to have spilled from one tap.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2022
• To turn the novel into a Broadway musical, with the gloss of song and dance that entails, would thus seem a category error worse even than the film’s.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2024
• Puig’s novel was previously adapted for the screen in 1985 by Héctor Babenco.
  — Dave Quinn, Peoplemag, 14 Apr. 2024

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