How to Use the same in a Sentence

the same

noun
  • What songs from the past are light and deep at the same time?
    Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • To bring it here and do the same thing is a lot of fun.
    Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The game marks the third time that Swift and Donna have watched Travis play from the same suite.
    Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, that is the same with most teen TV shows nowadays.
    Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Around the same time, the news quickly began to spread.
    David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The Nashville Lynne has returned to has both changed and stayed the same.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2024
  • So Montello texted his boss and turned in the store keys the same day.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • But at the same time, lilacs are blooming and birds are flapping around in the trees.
    Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Other Russians have done the same thing, over the last two years, and more.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 June 2024
  • At the same time, Charlotte hasn’t seen the band since his passing.
    Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
  • The film is based on Green’s best-selling 2017 young adult novel of the same name.
    The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But the new study suggests the amount of fishing on both sides is roughly the same.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • At the same time, she’s held a painful, imperfect, truth.
    Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • The win gives him a free pass into the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at the same track.
    John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Season 1 was based on the Philipp Meyer novel of the same name.
    Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
  • That number is up from 405 arrests at the same time last year.
    Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Just remember: The day the seed is planted is not the same day that the fruit is eaten.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Many of the Soviet countries threatened to do the same in 1984.
    Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • His songs and films take us back to the wonderful time of Hong Kong which is not the same as nowadays.
    Kanis Leung, ajc, 1 Apr. 2023
  • After the rehearsal, after the previews, the show must remain the same.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2023
  • From the mobile apps, tap You and then View all next to the History heading to get to the same options.
    David Nield, WIRED, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Gillian and Cassandra arrive at Grey Sloan at the same time.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 10 May 2024
  • And for the Swifties who didn’t get to go to the Hollywood premiere Wednesday, seeing the movie at the same mall the next evening was the next best thing.
    Angela Yang, NBC News, 13 Oct. 2023
  • While not all Floridians are paying the same sky-high rate, the numbers are still way above the norm.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Good bet a lot of them will be back as a bond, something that isn’t the same with off-campus games, begins to build.
    Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But at the same time, the internet has a lot of information and facts.
    Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 10 May 2024
  • Service calls can be handled as quickly as the same day.
    Abigail Gruskin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2024
  • San Diego has hired the same outside firm that handled the last recruitment process to run this one.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • One surprising result is that the number of genes required to encode a tiny nematode worm, a fish and a human being is about the same.
    Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 Oct. 2024
  • Social products are like cultural phenomenons in that people need to see others are doing the same.
    Leo Guan, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024

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