How to Use generality in a Sentence

generality

noun

• I noticed the generality of the language he used in discussing his plans.
• He spoke in generalities as he discussed his plans for the future.
• There are generalities about poverty, but well-to-do men have gone on killing sprees.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 5 Nov. 2017
• However, that generality comes at a cost, and not just the cloud bill.
  — Rivindu Perera, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
• Allen speaks in generalities about the delay but is candid about not knowing a date.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2024
• All the noise is about football, plus generalities about other sports.
  — Jon Wilner | , oregonlive, 25 Aug. 2023
• These lines read like lyrics by a self-aggrandizing old man who deals in generalities.
  — Josephine Livingstone, New Republic, 14 Sep. 2017
• Even questions about his rehab were met with vague generalities.
  — Brody Miller, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• That’s a generality because there will always be outliers who think things aren’t good enough.
  — Eric Bolin, ajc, 20 Sep. 2017
• The gauziness of the thesis here is matched by the generality of the characters and their lives.
  — Guy Lodge, Variety, 12 June 2026
• League members have only spoken in generalities about doing it and haven’t held any straw polls.
  — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 16 May 2025
• But aside from those generalities, little can be shared without spoiling the fun -- and the carnage.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 21 June 2017
• With the media, the providers would only talk about the status of outages at a statewide level and in generalities.
  — Nancy Dahlberg, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
• Writing in generalities opens the door for readers to object and ask questions.
  — Renae Gregoire, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• Enough with the vague generalities.
  — Jon Root Outkick, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• The debate is about whether these trends represent the generality.
  — Wired, 30 Nov. 2019
• But as far as market generalities are concerned, this is a pretty good one to bring into your own repertoire as an investor.
  — Josh Brown,sean Russo, CNBC, 6 Oct. 2025
• Researchers can describe in generalities many things that happen in sleeping brains.
  — Quanta Magazine, 21 Aug. 2018
• These need to be specific to you and not just generalities about saving taxes or avoiding probate.
  — Martin Shenkman, Forbes.com, 28 Mar. 2025
• Trump, by contrast, continues to speak on the level of generality.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 27 May 2023
• Of course, that’s a generality—no group of people is homogeneous.
  — Michele Parmelee, Forbes, 16 June 2021
• As Turchin notes the beauty of this result is that a rather coarse data set and simple formal model has strong generality.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Oct. 2013
• Don’t let the model float into generality.
  — Rhea Wessel, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2025
• Be specific Too many job ads read like form letters, full of generalities and corporate-speak.
  — Kat Boogaard, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2026
• The generality of this theory means that it can be applied to a wide range of examples where gender imbalance is found.
  — Eugenia Cheng, Wired, 25 Aug. 2020
• Experts say too little or too much mucus can result in illness, but the sweeping generality in this claim is far from accurate.
  — Nayeli Lomeli, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2021
• Asked if he was disappointed in Jones’s sophomore season, the coach spoke more in generalities.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Mar. 2023
• In its predictable generalities, Broke is a mass of multicam cliches.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2020
• Japan's system has been lauded for its generality and ease of use, but there is still a large stigma attached to it in the country, leading to lower uptake.
  — Katharina Buchholz, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024
• But Stone fills in the generalities of Chazelle’s story with a glowing innocence and a beating heart.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2017