novel

In a sentence

Six example sentences with novel, each labelled with its topic.

• The team took a novel approach to the storage problem, keeping the index in memory and the data on tape.

  Technology

• Freezing custard with liquid nitrogen once seemed a novel trick and now appears on dessert menus everywhere.

  Cooking

• The trial tested a novel delivery method, sending the drug through a skin patch instead of a weekly injection.

  Medicine

• The coach tried a novel lineup with no center at all, and the opponents needed a full half to adjust.

  Basketball

• Investors liked the novel pricing, which charged customers only in the months they actually logged in.

  Startups

• The tower uses a novel timber frame, stacking cross-laminated panels eighteen stories high without a steel core.

  Architecture

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains novel. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

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