How to Use universal in a Sentence

universal

1 of 2 adjective

• White is a universal choice, though heather grey is the fashion must of the season.
  — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 20 Oct. 2023
• But the project started in a simple and universal way: with grief.
  — Theresa Vargas, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2024
• The use of social media among teens is nearly universal in the U.S. and many other parts of the world.
  — Rob Gillies, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
• And to me, that’s a never-ending kind of universal feeling.
  — Lindy Segal, Glamour, 7 Feb. 2024
• In New York, being fly was the universal language of our people.
  — Neena Rouhani, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2023
• So rights are not some sort of universal thing that every person has.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2023
• Chris and Shilpa brainstorm some universal crowd pleasers.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appétit, 14 Sep. 2023
• The looks lean toward universal basics with clean lines.
  — Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2024
• The traits of a good edge defensive lineman are universal.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 15 Aug. 2023
• Partch is thinking more and more these days about what is universal in life’s measurement of time.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• The aim is to create a single, universal connector for a wide range of devices.
  — Shreyas Sen, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2023
• But Lueger was a genuine populist democrat, who brought universal male suffrage to the city.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• Few desires are more universal than wanting to get more and better sleep.
  — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 8 Apr. 2024
• The spreader features a universal hitch, so it can be attached to any brand of lawn mower or tractor.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 July 2023
• Still, the biggest challenge of all is largely universal: cost.
  — Jeff McMurray, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The universal appeal of that concept might help to explain why the show became one of last year’s biggest surprise hits.
  — TIME, 5 Oct. 2023
• The stories in Simon’s doc live in a French context, but the plight of its participants is near universal.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
• This cost includes $1.6 billion to fund universal, cost-free preschool.
  — Scott McClallen | The Center Square, Washington Examiner, 15 Apr. 2023
• None of the candidates had the universal appeal Winfrey was looking for.
  — Elisabeth Egan, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• But so far, those tests lack the universal set of standards that the institute plans to finalize this summer.
  — Josh Boak, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• Designed for foundation, cream contour, blush, and powder, this brush is a universal tool to keep in your glam kit.
  — Madison Yauger, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• First: There is little universal understanding of who has it and who doesn’t.
  — Michael Waters, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2023
• More:With the end of universal free lunch in most Wisconsin school districts, what options remain?
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• And much like her lyrics, her advice is so specific and also so universal.
  — Julia Emmanuele, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2023
• But also universal themes of our human experience, themes of love and loss and grief.
  — Gillian Telling, Peoplemag, 12 Mar. 2024
• The whole Gannett chain, including Columbus dispatch, the object of universal scorn because the AI could not write good prose.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2023
• Everyone knows the universal symbol of breast cancer: the pink ribbon.
  — Vivian Kobusingye Birchall, STAT, 27 Oct. 2023
• These are movements in the direction of universal freedom.
  — Nick Tabor, Los Angeles Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• And the ailments that patients arrive with, such as neck and lower-back pain, are universal and survivable.
  — Lauren Larson, Men's Health, 25 July 2023
• Finally, the time has come for Apple to create a universal charger.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 13 Sep. 2023

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universal

2 of 2 noun

• Make the specific universal and the world will beat a path to your door.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• The sailor and the nurse were intended as universals, and they are best seen that way.
  — Time, 28 July 2017
• But Brizé knows that for his story to resonate, the specific must trump the universal at every turn.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
• Like any good storyteller, Sean Dorsey has a knack for distilling the universal from the specific.
  — Claudia Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• Brissett earned universal praised from coaches and teammates after the loss.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2017
• But values are rooted in emotion and experience as well as reason, in the local as well as the universal.
  — Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2018
• Therefore, polygamy was a common cultural universal evoked out of the conditions at hand.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2012
• One of his great skills is finding the universal in his specific experiences, and so he’s written his locations into his work.
  — Hazlitt, 15 Mar. 2023
• Not only is there is a human universal of offense at violation of sacred norms, but those sacred norms vary from culture to culture.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2012
• This is the first change in testing recommendations since 2008 and makes testing universal for adults, rather than based on whether a person has any risk factors for hepatitis B infection.
  — Valerie Debenedette, Verywell Health, 12 Apr. 2023
• The descriptions of leaving the body and blissful unity with the universal seem almost scripted from religious beliefs about souls leaving the body at death and ascending toward heavenly bliss.
  — Robert Martone, Scientific American, 10 Sep. 2019
• My solution is a universal, flat-dollar Social Security benefit set at the poverty line, like the system in New Zealand.
  — Anne Tergesen, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2017
• If there are universals among their tactics, they are probably linked to shared evolutionary history or shared strategies for hijacking a host.
  — Quanta Magazine, 30 May 2019
• Many of the experts advocated for making the housing choice voucher program universal, which would allow anyone who qualifies for a voucher to receive one.
  — Juliette Rihl, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• Therefore, the common view that positive illusions are a human universal is based on heavily skewed research.
  — Shinobu Kitayama, Scientific American, 15 May 2023
• Though these words, from the pen of Hans Christian Andersen, are an appealing notion, the idea that there might be universals in music which transcend cultural boundaries has generally been met with scepticism by scholars working in the field.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• May 2019) Antonello’s real subjects are universals rather than particulars: love, despair, sorrow, amusement, and, above all, light.
  — The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• The practice of establishing and enforcing strict requirements for public apology is not a human universal.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022
• As passive night-fighting capability is far from universal in Russia’s tank fleet, and being first to detect and shoot often determines the outcome of tank battles, the sights are particularly important.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 29 June 2023
• With a soaring stock market and historically low unemployment levels, there was no universal, pressing economic anxiety or crisis that Biden could soothe.
  — Emily Larsen, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2020
• That said, this inclusive, open-hearted play, fundamentally and determinedly, traffics in universals.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Patriarchal capitalism has arguably had a vested interest in promoting the latter idea as a human universal: as the Marxist psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich pointed out, with women providing free housework and caregiving, capitalists could pay men less.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2018
• Today anthropologists consider mourning rituals to be a human universal.
  — Barbara J. King, Discover Magazine, 23 Apr. 2020
• Make the specific universal and the world will beat a path to your door.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2023
• The sailor and the nurse were intended as universals, and they are best seen that way.
  — Time, 28 July 2017
• But Brizé knows that for his story to resonate, the specific must trump the universal at every turn.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 11 May 2017
• Like any good storyteller, Sean Dorsey has a knack for distilling the universal from the specific.
  — Claudia Bauer, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2018
• Brissett earned universal praised from coaches and teammates after the loss.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 23 Sep. 2017
• But values are rooted in emotion and experience as well as reason, in the local as well as the universal.
  — Alison Gopnik, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2018
• Therefore, polygamy was a common cultural universal evoked out of the conditions at hand.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Jan. 2012

Last Updated: 7 May 2024