Below you will find example sentences with "same old". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Same Old in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: same
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 7
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "same old" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as same old same old, s the same old same old, new, faces and audiences stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with exact same, years old, same period, same way, same thing and same day, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with same old
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
This is year six of the same old, same old under Gruden. (12 words)
Every year it’s been the same old, same old–we have to do something. (15 words)
We thought Trudeau was different but it looks like it’s the same old same old. (16 words)
Thursday signified a change in the times for the Johnnies, who have long tempted their fans to get back on the wagon, but this isn't the same old St. John's team, and the maestro of this New York orchestra isn’t the same old coach. (47 words)
Nevertheless every Monday is just a reminder that his life is the same old, same old cycling again and for some reason even though his life is pretty much the same every day on Mondays specifically, awful things tend to happen to him physically. (44 words)
There I sat, listening to brand new lessons on the same old Caribbean history I never learned at school about the same people, places and islands we know today. (29 words)
Example sentences (20)
Audiences tire of the same old stories, told by the same old people, with the same old characters just dressed up in different superpowers.
Nevertheless every Monday is just a reminder that his life is the same old, same old cycling again and for some reason even though his life is pretty much the same every day on Mondays specifically, awful things tend to happen to him physically.
Sanders struck many of the same themes: “The way you win an election in this time in history is not the same old same old.
The faces in government have changed but it’s the same old, same old self-serving tactic.
Thursday signified a change in the times for the Johnnies, who have long tempted their fans to get back on the wagon, but this isn't the same old St. John's team, and the maestro of this New York orchestra isn’t the same old coach.
And the English chants of "same old Aussies, always cheating" were rewritten by the winning team as "same old Painey, always winning".
At the same time, the capitalist class has lost control and is no longer able to govern in the old way, with the same old faces and institutions.
That’s why I think The Marshall Project’s new publication is so revolutionary, even though it looks so much like the same old, same old journalism.
This is year six of the same old, same old under Gruden.
Anyway, definitely a welcome innovative contrast to some of the tiresome stuff shown to South Korean TV audiences jaded by same old, same old.
Every year it’s been the same old, same old–we have to do something.
We thought Trudeau was different but it looks like it’s the same old same old.
There I sat, listening to brand new lessons on the same old Caribbean history I never learned at school about the same people, places and islands we know today.
But that opportunity will end up being lost if the responses are the same old same.
But as I stare at the faces in this series, I feel the same old prickling of fear – and the same need to understand.
I love that I am still the same old me, well, the same me but older, and I think perhaps wiser, or intent on becoming wiser.
The old-school politics will try to trap you in the same old tactics and if you get trapped you are done and dusted.
It is just an old dog playing new tricks, or should I say the same old dog dressed in new attire.
The “same old rich man strategy” — in the words of the artist collective the Peace Poets – is as old as the institutions of colonization and slavery.
During a driving rainstorm at Old Trafford, it was the same old impotence for Manchester United.