How to Use not particularly in a Sentence

not particularly

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• It’s all mostly meant to be dark good fun, not particularly deep.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 18 Feb. 2026
• The dish should be bright and lemony, and not particularly spicy.
  — Alex Testere, Saveur, 24 July 2024
• While this draft class is not particularly deep with guards, there are a few who could come in and start early.
  — Jonathan M. Alexander, Houston Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2026
• Though even that is not particularly close.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• The two men had crossed paths for years in scouting circles, but were not particularly close.
  — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 28 July 2025
• The sales figures are not good and the reading is not particularly full.
  — Hannah Madlener, Glamour, 2 May 2025
• Unlike atopic eczema, the rash is not particularly itchy and is dry, red, and slightly flaky.
  — Parents Editors, Parents, 3 Sep. 2023
• That’s not particularly part and parcel of their jobs.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
• But a nice start would help, and the division is not particularly strong.
  — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
• The largest, chunks a few inches across, are not particularly useful as mulch.
  — Paul Cappiello, Louisville Courier Journal, 6 Mar. 2026
• Bisontis is considered a top-three guard in this draft class, which is not particularly deep.
  — Jonathan M. Alexander, Houston Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2026
• Cary added that the method, while effective, was not particularly unique.
  — Isaac Yee, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2026
• The court that de Moraes had joined was not particularly liberal.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
• What’s more, even after a couple of hours of nearly constant use, the pump was not particularly hot–a good sign.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• He was hurt, but not particularly surprised.
  — Lacey Rose, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
• His life was not particularly changed by her introduction to it.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
• But the reality was that his highlights reel was short and not particularly sweet.
  — James Pearce, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
• As for the battery life, the results are pretty good but not particularly special.
  — Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2024
• Two chimpanzees who were not particularly fond of each other grow close after both of them suffer the death of their babies.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
• The four men in the dingy are not particularly deep or philosophical, and their lot in life is not metaphorical.
  — Trish Deitch, Variety, 20 Nov. 2024
• To be clear, the joys of A Thousand Blows are not particularly deep.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
• Chopping a bolt to length with a cold chisel is fast and effective, but not particularly gentle.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
• The species is very much a cold-climate fan and warm summers are not particularly conducive to spontaneous spread.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 7 June 2024
• The book in question was not particularly rare or noteworthy, but something about it appealed to me.
  — Kenneth Turan, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2026
• These kinds of trinkets were not particularly surprising to me.
  — Magdalena Stawkowski, The Conversation, 8 Apr. 2026
• The team is not particularly close to naming his successor.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2026
• Again, there’s lots of detailed control, but the tools are not particularly user-friendly.
  — PCMAG, 24 July 2024
• On one level, this is concrete and not particularly profound.
  — John Gallucci Jr, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
• This is not particularly new, either — though, as the author herself might remind us, what story is?
  — Annie Berke, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• Smith said this year’s fire season is gearing up to be slightly longer than usual but is not particularly out of the ordinary.
  — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024