How to Use one-note in a Sentence

one-note

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• Which isn’t to say that his style is one-note – it’s never been.
  — Julian Randall, Essence, 24 May 2024
• The less said about Kraven's snarling, one-note performance, the better.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
• Apte does what the script requires as the dogged cop on his trial, even as Andrews has a bit of a more one-note role.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
• Zoom in: The Balkan beer scene is one-note, by American craft beer standards.
  — Sam Allard, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• Here, lush island hotels around the world that are anything but one-note.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 6 Dec. 2024
• In the hands of a less talented filmmaker, The Babadook could have been a one-note story.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• As such, the role could have easily been reduced to a bit part or a one-note villain.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• And although one of Patrick’s gifts to us is her honesty, at times the book felt repetitive and too one-note.
  — Steven Petrow, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• My life does not feel at all like a one-note experience.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
• Slow, ballad-y verses that build to an epic one-note melody chorus.
  — Eli Miller, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• The best of both worlds, caramel balayage instantly adds warmth and dimension to even the most plain and one-note hair colors.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2024
• Wilson is a skilled actor who doesn’t play a one-note foil for Momoa’s antics.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Fabian is mostly a one-note character, and that’s the note—peeved outrage.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• Rather than a one-note visual, moody blue is a whole-body experience.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
• Audiences could safely assume the movies’ one-note joke — a children’s toy that swears like a grown-up! — had run its course.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• The actress indeed does a lot with a role that could easily be one-note, stealing nearly every scene in the process.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Suffice it to say the period was not one-note, nor is its depiction onscreen.
  — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 24 Dec. 2024
• Lively’s charm can only carry Lily so far before the character starts to feel too one-note.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
• His keyboard player Kenny, king of the one-note solo, is holding down that B-flat organ key while waiting for the changes to come around again and catch up to his note.
  — Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
• For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
• Almut cringes at the idea of being commemorated in such a one-note fashion.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
• In what at first feels like a one-note role, Maupas subtly finds the depths of hope beneath Severino’s judgmental surface.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• But by and large, they’re mostly introduced as a series of one-note obstacles whose defeat brings Deku one step closer to Dark Might.
  — David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2024
• The system doesn’t typify one-note characters, just as real life shouldn’t.
  — WIRED, 26 July 2023
• Russia is pretty much a one-note economy: Fossil fuel exports pay the bills.
  — David Cay Johnston, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
• A little of this goes a very long way, especially when the Bandits themselves are relatively one-note.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2024
• That isn’t to say that Lolly Adefope isn’t an enjoyable screen presence, however, even if Dag feels a little limited and one-note on the page.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
• For all the wit and care of the performances, Malcolm and JB register as one-note ciphers because the adaptation cuts them down to little more than plot functionaries.
  — David Benedict, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• Sometimes soups can taste a little one-note, but this one is filled with contrasting textures and flavors to make every bite interesting.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 10 Jan. 2025
• In lesser hands, Hambone could also easily be a one-note cartoon of mental illness but Jennings doesn’t let that happen.
  — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 4 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 11 Mar 2025