How to Use novella in a Sentence

novella

noun

• The drama is based Stephen King's 1982 novella The Body.
  — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 4 June 2023
• The flawed heroes of each novella are played by and against him.
  — Steve Israel, chicagotribune.com, 12 July 2018
• The first season will adapt the first novella, 1998's The Hedge Knight, and consist of six episodes.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 May 2024
• Reznor and Ross composed the score for the film, which is based on William S. Burroughs’ novella of the same.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 21 Nov. 2024
• How much does the novella play with details from your own life?
  — Deborah Treisman, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2019
• The novella published first in a magazine and then as a book in late 1896.
  — arkansasonline.com, 3 Aug. 2024
• The novella was the basis for a 1975 cult movie starring a young Don Johnson.
  — Robert Jablon, USA TODAY, 28 June 2018
• The keyboard won’t inspire any novellas, but the soft-touch plastic on the palm rest is a nice touch.
  — Christopher Null, WIRED, 5 May 2014
• In her debut novella, Emily Tesh takes a new look at the Green Man mythos.
  — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, 15 June 2019
• Fans have long hoped for an adaptation of the Tales of Dunk and Egg series of novellas.
  — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 5 Apr. 2024
• The novella was the basis for a 1975 movie starring Don Johnson.
  — Richard Sandomir, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2018
• Inspired by the iconic horror novella of the same name.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 29 Oct. 2021
• The story won the Nebula Award that year for best novella.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2024
• Martin had sold the rights to the novella before, with nothing to show for it but a few big paychecks.
  — Noel Murray, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2018
• Hatcher based the play on a 1905 novella of the same name by Swedish writer Hjalmar Söderberg.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 July 2021
• Based on a novella from Stephen King, the film unspools across three chapters in the life of an ordinary man.
  — Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024
• Back in the magazine era, the novella was the heartbeat of science fiction.
  — Tom Shippey, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2019
• The film is adapted from a 2017 German novella of the same name by bestselling author Daniel Kehlman.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 June 2020
• In James’ novella, two children and Dani, their governess, head to a country house.
  — Lydia Wang, refinery29.com, 25 Aug. 2020
• Waller-Bridge and Comer fleshed out the character from the novellas by Luke Jennings.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 4 May 2018
• The film, which spurred a bidding war at last year’s festival, is based on the eponymous 2013 Jonathan Ames novella.
  — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 25 May 2017
• Darabont talks about the immense pressure of doing a film worthy of King’s novella.
  — Mark Dawidziak, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Episodes of more than 20 TV shows have been inspired by the novella, and four opera and two ballet versions of the story exist.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 18 Nov. 2022
• Onyebuchi’s thrilling 2020 novella asks just how far sci-fi dystopias are from real life.
  — Ruth Madievsky, The Atlantic, 20 Nov. 2024
• As Beth has pointed out, The Beach House is a companion novella, not a sequel.
  — Hanna Lustig, Teen Vogue, 12 July 2018
• The Dunk and Egg novellas that this new spinoff is based on are some of my favorite bits in the whole Westerosi catalogue.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024
• In the novella, the rest of the groom’s life, from early adulthood to late middle age, is relayed in a few heartrendingly swift pages.
  — Giles Harvey, The New York Review of Books, 19 Oct. 2022
• Immanuel Kant walked its streets in the eighteenth century; Thomas Mann wrote a novella there in 1929.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 9 Sep. 2022
• This spooky novella finds Lord John Grey journeying across the sea to Jamaica, to put a stop to a slave rebellion.
  — Emma Dibdin, Town & Country, 11 Mar. 2022
• For a short read that still packs a punch, check out The Lies of Ajungo, a debut novella about a boy's quest to bring water to his city and save his mother.
  — Men's Health, 15 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024