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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    It was full of chattering first and second years, and a few older students, who had obviously visited Hogsmeade so often the novelty had worn off.  (source)
    novelty = quality of being new
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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 had worn off.  (source)
    novelty = quality of being new and therefore interesting
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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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    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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    First, she found his unavailability intriguing, even novel.  (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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    Not because he wanted to be forgiven for missing the meal—that didn't interest him at all, he might have rather enjoyed the punishment if it was done in some novel and unknown way.  (source)
    novel = new and original
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews.  (source)
    novel = book with a made-up story
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    Give him long enough and he'll write a novel.  (source)
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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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    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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    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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    Can a memoir by Malcolm X or a novel by Garcia Marquez save them from the daily blows?  (source)
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