How to Use oneness in a Sentence

oneness

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  • And this was the oneness that linked man to man, in life or death.
    — Gene Seymour, CNN, 26 May 2021
  • Ego death, a sense of oneness with the universe, a release from the illusion of the self.
    — Natan Ponieman, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Thank you for being a fan, and your oneness, and your caring.
    — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2021
  • The visual evokes a sense of peace and oneness with nature and each other.
    — Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Look through your abode for twoness instead of oneness.
    — Charli Penn, Essence, 23 Oct. 2019
  • The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God.
    — Omar Akour, Fox News, 19 Aug. 2018
  • Just as Marcus’s paean to oneness, law, and order didn’t, don’t, and will never get it.
    — Tom Bissell, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • There’s a certain oneness that comes with getting lost among a sea of sweaty beings.
    — Katie Bain, Billboard, 18 June 2021
  • The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God in Islam.
    — Omar Akour and Ahmed Hatem, chicagotribune.com, 30 Aug. 2017
  • The Kaaba represents the metaphorical house of God and the oneness of God in Islam.
    — Ahmed Hatem, The Seattle Times, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Our families, our work, our hearts and minds and days and nights were blissful in their oneness, for the next two decades, until his death.
    — Ann Druyan, National Geographic, 10 July 2019
  • The runner’s high transported me to a Buddhist aware- ness of the oneness of everything.
    — Brodie Ramin, Outside Online, 30 Aug. 2021
  • She’s been known to veer into conversational tangents about the oneness of her body, mind, and the Earth.
    — Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 1 Mar. 2018
  • The connection to the divine isn’t a far away place, but rather a oneness that is always with us, a portal that can be accessed at any time.
    — Coastmag, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • But since the start of the pandemic, togetherness and oneness have been public health threats.
    — Jay Patel, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • And then Tekiyah gedolah, the final long note, that refers to a oneness, a total unity coming together.
    — The Economist, 11 July 2019
  • Still, there were signs that this feeling of oneness would not remain forever.
    — Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The oneness is also integral to the paintings’ defining idea.
    — Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2021
  • You’re invited to drop by downtown El Dorado to become part of the art, and celebrate the oneness of mankind.
    — Richard Mason, Arkansas Online, 16 Aug. 2020
  • This revered sacrament of Communion is meant to signify what the word means: with oneness, with unity.
    — Father Edward Beck, CNN, 19 June 2021
  • There was a sense of community on the team and a oneness and respect for each other in driving toward success.
    — Goldie Chan, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
  • This sense of oneness with nature is paramount to the Mona Lisa—another crucial feature that brings this work very close to my own concerns.
    — Mark Seliger, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Oct. 2017
  • In less than a decade, McAfee ascended to yoga teacher, leading workshops on peace, light, truth and oneness.
    — Dennis Wagner, The Arizona Republic, 23 June 2021
  • Nor was it religious insight, or a feeling of oneness with all humankind.
    — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Yo-Yo Ma expresses a oneness between the music, the instrument and the human being that connects all of it.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2021
  • Mystics and meditators aim for this sense of oneness with the universe, but Lightman’s just happened.
    — Michael Shermer, New York Times, 25 June 2018
  • What connects those words is a feeling of oneness with another person or being, Fiske says.
    — Daniel Burke, CNN, 6 Apr. 2018
  • And Muslim Americans may disagree on the solidity and the nature of that oneness.
    — John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The zombie kiss is a grotesque inversion of what Tess seemed to want very badly from Joel: intimacy, closeness, oneness.
    — Mikhail Klimentov, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
  • In Yellowstone’s world, oneness with nature is a measure of not moral goodness, but a more pragmatic brand of merit.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022

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