How to Use one-note in a Sentence

one-note

adjective

• Of course, foam isn’t one-note.
  — Bailey Berg, Architectural Digest, 10 Mar. 2026
• All of which is to say the one-take can get a little one-note.
  — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025
• Dave Canales doesn’t want one-note tight ends in his offense.
  — Mike Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 3 Mar. 2025
• Everything now is kind of one-note.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 4 Dec. 2025
• Slow, ballad-y verses that build to an epic one-note melody chorus.
  — Eli Miller, Vulture, 16 June 2023
• Some could’ve gone veering into the absurd but stayed one-note.
  — Rima Parikh, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
• Here, lush island hotels around the world that are anything but one-note.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 6 Dec. 2024
• Most of these songs are fried, one-note, and tailored for Rolling Loud.
  — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 3 Mar. 2026
• The classic technique is anything but one-note.
  — Calin Van Paris, InStyle, 14 June 2026
• For all her stage presence, Jackson was a one-note actress.
  — Jeff Pearlman, HollywoodReporter, 20 Oct. 2025
• Mix the Genres Craig’s playlists are anything but one-note.
  — Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 10 May 2026
• As such, the role could have easily been reduced to a bit part or a one-note villain.
  — TIME, 13 Oct. 2023
• Rather than a one-note visual, moody blue is a whole-body experience.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 4 Oct. 2024
• Balance is key, though, to preventing a room from looking one-note.
  — Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 2 July 2025
• His performance could have been a very easy, one-note performance.
  — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 11 Mar. 2026
• New hotels, shops, and restaurants have added dynamism to a city that could often feel one-note.
  — Ryan Krogh, Outside Online, 3 June 2025
• The less said about Kraven's snarling, one-note performance, the better.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 17 Oct. 2023
• But also understand that my father was more than just a one-note politician.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 12 Feb. 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
• Other figures in the story remain one-note, though the actors all do their best.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
• The cheese ends up being pretty one-note, like hot honey with an aftertaste of goat’s milk.
  — Alex Beggs, Bon Appetit Magazine, 25 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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
• Suffice it to say the period was not one-note, nor is its depiction onscreen.
  — Rachel Davies, Architectural Digest, 24 Dec. 2024
• 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
• 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
• This isn't the one-note brooding, mysterious kind of troubled hero we're used to seeing.
  — Kathleen Newman-Bremang, Refinery29, 27 Jan. 2026
• 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
• The system doesn’t typify one-note characters, just as real life shouldn’t.
  — WIRED, 26 July 2023
• Almut cringes at the idea of being commemorated in such a one-note fashion.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2024