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How to use the word -ness in a Sentence?

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We’re suckers for that, there’s a cute babyish-ness.

Nate Morehouse

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These are not good days for liberty. If you look around the world, you see that the idea of freedom, freedom which contains a sense of carefree-ness, seems everywhere in retreat, hounded by guns and bombs.

Salman Rushdie

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With' Insecure,' there's something about the everyday-ness and the moments of mundanity and the parts of people's lives that don't necessarily spark a sense of spectacle, that can be relatable to audiences.

Francesca Sobande

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can never do right, it seems, this is the man who literally has brought Latino-ness and Puerto Rican-ness to American. I couldn’t do it. I’d love to say I did but I couldn’t. Lin-Manuel has done that really single-handedly.

Rita Moreno

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's like you can never do right it seems, this is the man who literally has brought Latino-ness and Puerto Rican-ness to America. I couldn't do it. I mean, I would love to say I did, but I couldn't. Lin-Manuel has done that, really single-handedly, and I'm thrilled to pieces, and I'm proud that he produced my documentary.

Rita Moreno

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Kunal [ Nayyar ] has been one of those people kind of always was the heart of our cast, and so, often he’s the one to sort of express that kind of missing-ness. For me, I still get to work with Jim, which is amazing. He’s not able to be physically in Los Angeles because of COVID. But we do get to keep up in other ways.

Mayim Bialik

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Loch Ness Monster of the Swamp.

Tim Scott

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I did the best as an actor to overcome the cliché-ness because I had to in order to keep working, i took those roles and then I used what my teachers had taught me and put the real feelings, even if it's a villain... I try to find what makes the person really that person.

James Hong

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Therefore we cant discount the possibility that what people see and believe is the Loch Ness monster might be a giant eel. i dont believe the eel theory has killed off the Loch Ness Monster, quite the reverse in fact.

Richard Freeman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I dont believe the eel theory has killed off the Loch Ness Monster, quite the reverse in fact, a giant eel, which can grow up to 30 feet, is a monster in every sense of the word.

Richard Freeman

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Eels are very plentiful in the loch system - every single sampling site that we went to pretty much had eels and the sheer volume of it was a bit of a surprise, we can't exclude the possibility that there's a giant eel in Loch Ness but we don't know whether these samples we've collected are from a giant beast or just an ordinary one - so there's still this element of 'we just don't know.'.

Neil Gemmell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This isn't aid that comes with good intentions. It's aid that comes with other interests, this would disrespect Brazilians. It would subjugate our Brazilian-ness.

Eduardo Bolsonaro

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I'm really lucky that Pornhub wanted to come on and produce this with me because originally I was shopping it around a very long time ago and things were very different, people are kind of scared to make a movie like this one when it comes to dominance and submissive( ness) between a male and a female and how this relationship can turn quite sour.

Bella Thorne

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Parenting no longer involves relying on the finite-ness imposed by media. Instead, it's up to the parents and household rules to make it finite and help kids understand when to stop.

Shelley Pasnik

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

I love those players and I love how African they are and how French they are. I don’t take their French-ness away, but I don’t think you need to take their African-ness away, that is what I love about America. America is not a perfect country, but what I love about this place is that people can still celebrate their identity in their American-ness. You can go to a St. Patrick’s Day parade in America celebrating that you are Irish.

Trevor Noah

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While the prospect of looking for evidence of the Loch Ness monster is the hook to this project, there is an extraordinary amount of new knowledge that we will gain from the work about organisms that inhabit Loch Ness – the U.K.'s largest freshwater body.

Neil Gemmell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

While the prospect of looking for evidence of the Loch Ness monster is the hook to this project, there is an extraordinary amount of new knowledge that we will gain from the work about organisms that inhabit Loch Ness – the UK's largest freshwater body.

Neil Gemmell

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

There are many miniatures that we did which were of faked or staged events, loch Ness is obviously faked. And there are stories on the web where people think Stanley Kubrick faked these moon pictures.

Jojakim Cortis

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Anyone who tries to argue that 'The Bachelor' is a feminist franchise is kidding themselves, but I'd also argue that it's retro-ness is what makes it both captivating TV and a fascinating teaching tool.

Claire Fallon

Found on CNN
7 years ago

You can send cold emails, but it reflects much better on you as an entrepreneur if you can find some way to get a slightly warm introduction. That would be my advice for you, the reality is cold stuff often does n’t get looked at very carefully but I do think it is a reflection of your creativity and stick-to-it-ness to figure out how to get to these guys.

Scott Kupor

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I think you might be able to get the Loch Ness Monster elected before you could (a woman). It's not right, but I'm just saying I don't think.

Clifford Harris

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Everybody's got a different theory as to what the identity of the Loch Ness monster is.

Steve Feltham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That object is bigger than an estate car, everybody's got a different theory as to what the identity of the Loch Ness monster is.

Steve Feltham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

At the moment, a Wels catfish ticks more of the boxes than any of the other contenders for the explanation, i would like it to be something new and undiscovered rather than something a little bit mundane. People do report four- or five-feet long necks sticking up out of Loch Ness. That's not going to be a Wels catfish.

Steve Feltham

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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