NOVELTY in a Sentence

Learn NOVELTY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

48 example sentences for NOVELTY, such as:

1. The novelty was in their being lively.
2. The novelty of fatherhood did not wear off.
3. There's a certain novelty value in this approach.
4. He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect.
5. Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOVELTY
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novelty
 n.  quality of being novel; newness; something new and unusual
Classic Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  If there had ever been any novelty and romance about nursing, that had worn off a year ago.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  The novelty of fatherhood did not wear off.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
3  She thought, however, that once the novelty had passed, Bonnie would turn to other things and the neighborhood would have some peace.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
4  She glanced with interest along the new brick and limestone house-fronts, fantastically varied in obedience to the American craving for novelty, but fresh and inviting with their awnings and flower-boxes.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
5  They would have over-emphasized the novelty of the adventure, trying to make him feel in it the zest of an escapade.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 2
6  She had, she meditated, passed through the novelty of seeing the town and meeting people, of skating and sliding and hunting.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  For the first time in Gopher Prairie Carol had found novelty.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  David had contended, and the novelty of the circumstance held him silent, in deliberation on the propriety of the unusual occurrence.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 11
9  They both, however, received the young man with undisguised pleasure; the former, for a novelty, being the first to speak.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
10  There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably new and, from its very novelty, incredibly sweet.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
11  It bore no emblem of the deceased's birth or quality, for armorial bearings were then a novelty among the Norman chivalry themselves and, were totally unknown to the Saxons.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  It required a longer time, however, than Mrs. Norris was inclined to allow, to reconcile Fanny to the novelty of Mansfield Park, and the separation from everybody she had been used to.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
13  The novelty was in their being lively.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  When the novelty of amusement there was over, it would be time for the wider range of London.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
15  I told them that you were of all human creatures the one over whom habit had most power and novelty least; and that the very circumstance of the novelty of Crawford's addresses was against him.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  There's a certain novelty value in this approach.
2  Many toys have no attraction beyond their novelty value.
3  In the contemporary western world, rapidly changing styles cater to a desire for novelty and individualism.
4  He wore a red nose and novelty glasses for comic effect.
5  Another novelty is the Japanese garden with its bamboo fence, the posts and door of entrance being carved with remarkable taste and boldness.
6  A novelty to foreign visitors, the cactus is as common on the Mexican plate as potatoes or rice in many other parts of the world.