How to Use sui generis in a Sentence

sui generis

adjective

• Not to mention the Starman’s own sui generis take on The Funk.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
• In the spring of 2021, Kyrie is the sui generis, the capo di tutti capi of Boston bad apples.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• Moses Mendelssohn was sui generis, and most of his of children left Judaism.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2012
• The two cracked beams proved to be sui generis, the problem confined to a single stretch of roof above Fremont Street.
  — John Brant, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2019
• And that is a sign of the feverish M&A marketplace for sui generis IP assets.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 4 Apr. 2022
• The show’s oddball approach was sui generis in its day, and had remained so–until now.
  — Daniel D'addario, Time, 8 Feb. 2018
• It’s a sui generis cartoon that sprang from a singular mind.
  — Jenna Scherer, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2021
• Nonetheless the work is stunningly bizarre, worthy as few things are of the name sui generis.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 9 Nov. 2022
• In the sense that there is no other group of people favored in this manner, the legal status of the BIA is truly sui generis.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2021
• But the New York Times is sui generis in American journalism.
  — Lionel Shriver, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• And that, perhaps, is Alice Neel’s best last laugh: nakedly herself, sui generis, and hot in demand up and down the Eastern seaboard.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 26 Feb. 2019
• Chamberlain, on the other hand, is sui generis, which is surely part of her appeal.
  — Taylor Lorenz, The Atlantic, 3 July 2019
• Bigelow’s monument was to be his own, ex nihilo and sui generis.
  — Colin Dickey, Longreads, 31 Aug. 2017
• At the time, the two legal showdowns seemed so sui generis bizarro that they were treated like cultural anomalies.
  — David Friend, Washington Post, 27 June 2024
• The woodcuts are sui generis, in a mode that can seem, befuddlingly, equidistant from prints and paintings.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 19 July 2021
• But consider starting with these sui generis surf-and-turf soup dumplings, or xiao long bao, the dumpling style that made Din Tai Fung famous.
  — Mrussell, oregonlive, 23 Mar. 2023
• Very quickly his job became doing whatever chore was in the offing—a sui generis job he's held for years.
  — Julia Ioffe, GQ, 21 June 2018
• In fact, the job that Piper invented for herself was completely sui generis.
  — Thomas Chatterton Williams, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• The expansion of Europeans during the Age of Discovery to all suitable points across the globe is viewed to a great extent as sui generis.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 7 July 2011
• That’s because of the unstructured, sui generis nature of restaurant menus.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2018
• The secret is in unraveling the sui generis of each virtual team.
  — Jedidiah Alex Koh, Forbes, 4 June 2021
• There’s a tendency to see Trump and his successful 2016 campaign as sui generis.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 4 Apr. 2022
• So while other candidates may ape his style or tone, Trump remains sui generis.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 Feb. 2023
• And Steely Dan was nothing if not weird and almost aggressively sui generis.
  — Chelsea Leu, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2022
• That’s a lot of short fiction, but Lafferty’s sui generis blend of the surreal and the deadpan funny can be addictive.
  — Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Maybe Rivera, the greatest relief pitcher in major-league history, is sui generis for him that regard.
  — Mike Sielski, Philly.com, 26 June 2018
• The heightened visual world is both sui generis and generalized, the town unpinpointed on a map.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2020
• By that point, Tate’s sui generis brilliance was widely acknowledged in our circles, and still barely touched by others.
  — New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
• Route 91 was a sui generis attack — a gunman in an offsite hotel perched high above an unsuspecting crowd.
  — August Brown, latimes.com, 22 May 2018
• The fact that a number of incredible, sui generis films that our inner cynic assumed would be overlooked by the Academy actually made the cut still gives us goosebumps.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024