How to Use one-note in a Sentence

one-note

adjective

• All of which is to say the one-take can get a little one-note.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
• Which isn’t to say that his style is one-note – it’s never been.
  — Julian Randall, Essence, 24 May 2024
• Dave Canales doesn’t want one-note tight ends in his offense.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2025
• The less said about Kraven's snarling, one-note performance, the better.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
• Apte does what the script requires as the dogged cop on his trial, even as Andrews has a bit of a more one-note role.
  — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 28 Jan. 2025
• Zoom in: The Balkan beer scene is one-note, by American craft beer standards.
  — Sam Allard, Axios, 17 Sep. 2024
• Here, lush island hotels around the world that are anything but one-note.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 6 Dec. 2024
• In the hands of a less talented filmmaker, The Babadook could have been a one-note story.
  — Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 25 Oct. 2024
• As such, the role could have easily been reduced to a bit part or a one-note villain.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• And although one of Patrick’s gifts to us is her honesty, at times the book felt repetitive and too one-note.
  — Steven Petrow, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
• Some could’ve gone veering into the absurd but stayed one-note.
  — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
• My life does not feel at all like a one-note experience.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 7 Feb. 2025
• Slow, ballad-y verses that build to an epic one-note melody chorus.
  — Eli Miller, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• New hotels, shops, and restaurants have added dynamism to a city that could often feel one-note.
  — Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
• Cold brew, on the other hand, tends to offer a more one-note flavor profile in my opinion.
  — Noah Kaufman, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 June 2025
• The best of both worlds, caramel balayage instantly adds warmth and dimension to even the most plain and one-note hair colors.
  — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 3 Dec. 2024
• Wilson is a skilled actor who doesn’t play a one-note foil for Momoa’s antics.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Fabian is mostly a one-note character, and that’s the note—peeved outrage.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 8 Feb. 2024
• Balance is key, though, to preventing a room from looking one-note.
  — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2025
• Balance is key, though, to preventing a room from looking one-note.
  — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2025
• Rather than a one-note visual, moody blue is a whole-body experience.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
• Audiences could safely assume the movies’ one-note joke — a children’s toy that swears like a grown-up! — had run its course.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 11 Jan. 2024
• The actress indeed does a lot with a role that could easily be one-note, stealing nearly every scene in the process.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Nov. 2023
• Suffice it to say the period was not one-note, nor is its depiction onscreen.
  — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 24 Dec. 2024
• This isn't the one-note brooding, mysterious kind of troubled hero we're used to seeing.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 27 Jan. 2026
• While classic and minimal, Hepburn's tastes were anything but one-note.
  — Amber Rambharose, InStyle, 18 Jan. 2026
• Far too often, video game adaptations of dense sci-fi worlds on the big screen have only produced fancy set dressings for one-note adventures.
  — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2025
• Everything now is kind of one-note.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Dec. 2025
• Fresh thyme and orange zest are a great finishing touch, keeping the carrots from feeling too one-note.
  — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 1 Dec. 2025
• For all her stage presence, Jackson was a one-note actress.
  — Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025