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
  • The novelty of life in a construction zone wore off as the weeks rolled on.
    Joan Elovitz Kazan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2 June 2022
  • When the first boomers were toddlers, TV was a novelty.
    Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2023
  • And all that novelty presents an edge, at least for the first game Friday.
    Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 5 May 2022
  • At this point in the season, those of us who are going to the theater are over the novelty.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 23 Nov. 2021
  • These sorts of gimmicks and novelties don’t tend to have long shelf lives.
    Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
  • The Wrangler's old-school novelty hits you hard in more ways than its rough ride.
    Mike Sutton, Car and Driver, 26 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • But still hanging on the wall that came perilously close to the fire were a pair of novelty signs.
    oregonlive, 5 Jan. 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
  • And candidates who see him as a novelty need to treat him like a threat.
    Dan Zak, Washington Post, 9 June 2022
  • And if fashion is about newness and novelty, then the metaverse was the most en vogue venue in town.
    Leah Dolan, CNN, 30 Mar. 2022
  • This adorable novelty pillow is one of those things that’s just plain fun.
    Hyphensocial Contributors, Rolling Stone, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Because of the novelty of Sunday’s event, the playing field is even, Custer said.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2022
  • What if time is more of a human novelty than a concept in physics?
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 22 Apr. 2022
  • The novelty of it all generated quite a buzz at first, and the hotel was a dream for divers.
    Jacopo Prisco, CNN, 12 Nov. 2021
  • In the end, Janet picked a new remote that looked nothing like the old one, because novelty was hard to come by.
    Clare Sestanovich, The New Yorker, 25 July 2022
  • Maybe the novelty of that summer day will never be matched.
    John Canzano, oregonlive, 11 Dec. 2021
  • Women on the force were still a novelty back then, David-Vickery said.
    Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 2 Feb. 2025
  • My thought bubble: As a coastal city dweller and SoCal transplant, seeing snow feels like a novelty that will never wear off.
    Nadia Lopez, Axios, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Convene in Covent Garden, drink and celebrate and mark a special moment that is still a novelty.
    George Caulkin, The Athletic, 15 Mar. 2025

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