DIFFERENT in a Sentence

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I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFERENT
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different
 a.  not the same; unlike in nature, quality, form, or degree
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This book had a far different effect upon me from the Sorrows of Werter.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
3  I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  She appeared of a different stock.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very different from what Elinor had expected.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
9  Their means were as different as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
10  Yet I hardly know how," cried Marianne, "unless it had been under totally different circumstances.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
11  His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
13  Her joy was of a different kind, and led to any thing rather than to gaiety.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
14  Different gangs and different ships.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
15  That I cannot wish to renew that chance intercourse with you of long ago, under these different circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The table is available in several different heights.
17  Each unit of the course book focuses on a different grammar point.
18  The girls come from a variety of different backgrounds.
19  Minerals can be absorbed and utilized by the body in a variety of different forms.
20  Food allergies can result in an enormous variety of different symptoms.
21  The many different habitats support a wide variety of birds.
22  In the various regions of India, Hindus worship different gods and observe different religious festivals.
23  The driver's version of the accident was different from the eyewitness'.
24  The report compares the different types of home computer available.
25  The French I learned at school is very different from the local vernacular of the village where I'm now living.
26  There are a number of different points of view on this issue.
27  They need to be tolerant of different points of view.
28  Married people usually have a different view of life from single people.
29  Communal violence broke out in different parts of the country.
30  In the Western world, there is a different attitude to marriage.