How to Use the same in a Sentence

the same

noun
  • What songs from the past are light and deep at the same time?
    — Billboard Italy, Billboard, 22 Mar. 2024
  • To bring it here and do the same thing is a lot of fun.
    — Journal Sentinel, 3 Apr. 2023
  • At the same time, change the shoes and throw on a sweatshirt, and you're set for the weekend.
    — Gabrielle Porcaro, Travel + Leisure, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The game marks the third time that Swift and Donna have watched Travis play from the same suite.
    — Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Of course, that is the same with most teen TV shows nowadays.
    — Samantha Olson, Seventeen, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Around the same time, the news quickly began to spread.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • The Nashville Lynne has returned to has both changed and stayed the same.
    — Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 19 Aug. 2024
  • But, not all cabernet francs from New York are the same.
    — Emily Cappiello, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
  • So Montello texted his boss and turned in the store keys the same day.
    — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024
  • The fields may change, but the sowing and reaping remain the same.
    — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But at the same time, lilacs are blooming and birds are flapping around in the trees.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
  • Other Russians have done the same thing, over the last two years, and more.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 June 2024
  • But control is a myth, and safety isn’t the same as progress.
    — Stephanie Dillon, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, Charlotte hasn’t seen the band since his passing.
    — Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 10 May 2024
  • The film is based on Green’s best-selling 2017 young adult novel of the same name.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2024
  • But the new study suggests the amount of fishing on both sides is roughly the same.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024
  • The highland green paint is the same color as the original car in the film.
    — Keenan Thompson, Freep.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • At the same time, she’s held a painful, imperfect, truth.
    — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 12 June 2024
  • The win gives him a free pass into the Breeders’ Cup Classic on Nov. 4 at the same track.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
  • Season 1 was based on the Philipp Meyer novel of the same name.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Fox has won a Norris, and McAvoy could do the same at some point in his career.
    — Peter Baugh, The Athletic, 22 Feb. 2025
  • Since then, home prices have surged more than 260%, while the exclusion amount has stayed the same.
    — Collyn Wainwright, The Tennessean, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That number is up from 405 arrests at the same time last year.
    — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Just remember: The day the seed is planted is not the same day that the fruit is eaten.
    — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Apr. 2023
  • Third, the president’s voice is not the same thing as a school-wide doctrine.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Many of the Soviet countries threatened to do the same in 1984.
    — Les Carpenter, Washington Post, 21 July 2024
  • The first half was more of the same for Minnesota.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • At the same time, rates of diseases that can be protected against with vaccines, such as measles and whooping cough, are rising across the country.
    — Arkansas Online, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Ironically, the same molten lava that once devastated the island has both built it back up and kept these dwellings cool.
    — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2026
  • No two years’ Super Bowl rings are the same.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2026

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