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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But also understand that my father was more than just a one-note politician.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Lively’s charm can only carry Lily so far before the character starts to feel too one-note.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Aug. 2024
  • His keyboard player Kenny, king of the one-note solo, is holding down that B-flat organ key while waiting for the changes to come around again and catch up to his note.
    Bart Bull, SPIN, 20 Feb. 2023
  • For all that, his Arthur remains a lowly outsider, with a downcast gaze, a peevish temper, and a deep well of melancholy that never feels one-note.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Almut cringes at the idea of being commemorated in such a one-note fashion.
    Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024
  • In what at first feels like a one-note role, Maupas subtly finds the depths of hope beneath Severino’s judgmental surface.
    Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • But by and large, they’re mostly introduced as a series of one-note obstacles whose defeat brings Deku one step closer to Dark Might.
    David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The Devils never slows down enough to really give us the opportunity to connect, and the humor starts to make a lot of the characters feel a bit one-note or boxed-in.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • And the good news is, these dishes, which many might have seen as one-note, have been reimagined, using different (but not necessarily more difficult) cooking techniques and better ingredients.
    Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2025

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