Example Sentences

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“Oganesson” is constructed around his delicate strummed riff, which recalls the ease of bossa nova, and it has an airiness and jazziness not found elsewhere on the record.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

His return and the sport’s return will mingle for fresh jazziness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 14, 2020

Hopper balked at the notion that there was anything overtly cinematic in his photography, but it’s hard not to see a French New Wave jazziness in it.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 22, 2019

For the past two months, we have preferred to discuss the jazziness of Henri Matisse over the jazziness of the South African artists Dumile Feni or Lefifi Tladi.

From US News • Sep. 15, 2016

From a verb to camouflage we may form the noun camouflager “one who camouflages,” from an adjective jazzy proceeds with perfect case the noun jazziness.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward