ASSORTMENT in a Sentence

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For ASSORTMENT, below is one of 18 sentences:
Thus it happened that in Eustacia's brain were juxtaposed the strangest assortment of ideas, from old time and from new.

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 Meanings and Examples of ASSORTMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
assortment
 n.  variety; collection containing a variety of sorts of things
Classic Sentence:
1  He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER II. THE SCIENCE OF DEDUCTION
2  Dresses were made, jewellery was made, cakes and gloves were made, settlements were made, and an extensive assortment of Facts did appropriate honour to the contract.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
3  Thus it happened that in Eustacia's brain were juxtaposed the strangest assortment of ideas, from old time and from new.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 7 Queen of Night
4  assortment of Doll's Millinery next week.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
5  There was the usual assortment of young men absorbed in themselves, young couples absorbed in each other, married ladies in their babies, and old gentlemen in politics.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE
6  But when a squad of bearded men came lumbering down the steps, laden with an assortment of stolen articles and she saw Charles' sword in the hands of one, she did cry out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  Here there was no flooring and the assorted jumble of stock was piled helter-skelter on the hard-packed earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  Our instructors were oddly assorted; wandering pioneer school-teachers, stranded ministers of the Gospel, a few enthusiastic young men just out of graduate schools.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: I
9  When I reached him he was groping about frantically in the empty cab, and giving vent to the finest assorted collection of oaths that ever I listened to.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
10  Besides these, a casket of magnificent goldwork, with the same arms as the sword and the portrait, formed a middle ornament to the mantelpiece, and assorted badly with the rest of the furniture.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 7 THE INTERIOR* OF THE MUSKETEERS
11  Edna found her friend engaged in assorting the clothes which had returned that morning from the laundry.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
Example Sentence:
1  He threw an arbitrary assortment of clothes into his suitcase and headed off, not caring where he went.
2  A great assortment of cars was on display.
3  This shop has a good assortment of goods to choose from.
4  Watching the large and varied bird population, or following assorted trails on horseback.
5  These TV sets do not assort with the samples.
6  The new leader's statement does not assort with his Party's principles.
7  It took weeks to assort the agglomeration of miscellaneous items she had collected on her trip.