How to Use novelty in a Sentence

novelty

noun
  • Eating shark meat is a novelty to many people.
  • Electric-powered cars are still novelties.
  • One reason for the love might be the novelty of the products.
    Zoe Glasser, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The freshness of the metaphor should match the novelty of the discovery.
    Sorin Adam Matei, The Conversation, 14 June 2024
  • The idea of sports talk radio was a novelty at the time their show took off.
    Chris Bumbaca, USA TODAY, 2 Feb. 2023
  • But the sounds made by glaciers can be used for more than just novelty ice cubes.
    Nell Lewis, CNN, 27 Sep. 2022
  • When the first boomers were toddlers, TV was a novelty.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The new movie can’t recreate the novelty of getting a peek inside the mind of a preteen.
    Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 June 2024
  • Putting ads in space, above cities, may seem like a novelty to some entrepreneurs.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2022
  • This adorable novelty pillow is one of those things that’s just plain fun.
    Samantha Booth, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The novelty of those revisionist takes has, of course, waned in the 40 years since.
    A.a. Dowd, Chron, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Baja is home to the largest pods of dolphins, and one pod danced alongside the boat, surfing in the novelty waves.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 27 Oct. 2024
  • And then, there’s the novelty of the debate itself to draw people in, Verna and Benes said.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • Boiling is better, but the color fades and so does the novelty.
    Alex Beggs, Bon Appétit, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Are sports fan tokens a huge wave of the future or just a passing novelty?
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Otherwise, go for something a bit more cheeky, like a novelty pen in the shape of a hotdog.
    Brittney Morgan, housebeautiful.com, 5 May 2023
  • But once the novelty fades, some of the problems begin to assert themselves.
    Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Take away the sci-fi novelty, and all that’s left are those two people looking to connect.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
  • There’s no mystique, no scarcity, and not much in terms of novelty.
    Damon Beres, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Gerard sometimes acted as if the loss of his toes was a novelty.
    Matt Kempner, ajc, 23 June 2023
  • Get nine pairs of novelty of knee socks in this set, which comes ready to gift in a festive holiday box.
    Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 27 Dec. 2022
  • This start, and the years of hard work on the dusty outpost, became something a novelty when she was appointed to the Supreme Court.
    AZCentral.com, 12 Sep. 2022
  • That matters to me more than novelty or being on the cutting edge.
    Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Is this coffee-slinging droid a novelty or a job killer?
    Stephen Pastis, Fortune, 22 June 2023
  • But, after four years, the novelty has likely worn off.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 May 2023
  • Perhaps there was also a novelty to that game that made trekking back and forth less tedious.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
  • For the Padres, who had last welcomed a crowd to a home playoff game in 2006, owning their own crowd was a happy novelty.
    Helene Elliott, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2022
  • Their unique, toy-like image also lends them a sense of novelty.
    Erika Tulfo, CNN, 14 July 2024
  • Those novelty records inspired me to write comedy songs and put that in my comedy act.
    Steve Appleford, SPIN, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Respondents gave the lowest ratings for living rooms and novelty backdrops (example: a walrus in front of an iceberg).
    thehustle.co, 1 Nov. 2024

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