Sample Sentences for
novel
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novel as in:  a novel situation

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    Kit had no idea that her methods were novel and surprising.  (source)
    novel = new
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    I have to admit that this was a novel idea for me.  (source)
    novel = new and original
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    And I'm sure the guy sitting across the table shouted, "Now, that's a novel idea!"  (source)
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    Finally, once some of the novelty had worn off, I could tell that Aech was ready to talk.  (source)
    novelty = quality of being new
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    He relished the role and concocted novel, grueling training regimens that his teammates still remember well.  (source)
    novel = new (not previously seen)
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    The novelty had worn off.  (source)
    novelty = quality of being new and therefore interesting
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    The idea that she had a separate existence outside our household was a novel one, to say nothing of her having command of two languages.  (source)
    novel = new
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    The novelty of a pretrial capital defendant on death row seemed to motivate other prisoners to get in Walter's ear every day.  (source)
    novelty = uniqueness
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    And she conceived the idea of a soldiers' center. It was a novel idea for its day and Tante Jans threw all the passion of her nature into it.  (source)
    novel = new and original
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    You've been thirteen for a month, so I suppose it doesn't seem such a novelty to you as it does to me.  (source)
    novelty = new experience
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    Harry closed his eyes against the now blazing evening sky as the newsreader said, '— and finally, Bungy the budgie has found a novel way of keeping cool this summer.'  (source)
    novel = new and original
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    Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.  (source)
    novelty = newness
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    First, she found his unavailability intriguing, even novel.  (source)
    novel = new and original
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    Give him long enough and he'll write a novel.  (source)
    novel = book with a made-up story
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    And the film was based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, one of Halliday's favorite authors.  (source)
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    The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews.  (source)
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    Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex.  (source)
    novel = book with a made-up story
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    The author of that novel was so thin, so frail, so comparatively optimistic!  (source)
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    He spent the soggy afternoons working on homework projects and reading a cowboy novel.  (source)
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    It turned, like a hidden passage from some mystery novel.  (source)
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    Who're you writing the novel to, anyway?  (source)
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    Handwritten in neat block letters on a page torn from a novel by Nikolay Gogol, it read: S.O.S. I NEED YOUR HELP.  (source)
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    She was in the latter stages of the novel, where the young priest was doubting his faith after meeting a strange and elegant woman.  (source)
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    Ruefully Josh says, "The guys from the graphic-novel club are going as different fantasy-book characters."  (source)
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    One of their most heated debates in that first year was over a novel.  (source)
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    They had no novelists-and would not have permitted anyone to read a novel if one were handy.  (source)
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