DIVERSITY in a Sentence

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Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIVERSITY
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diversity
 n.  point or respect in which things differ; difference
Classic Sentence: (62 in 5 pages)
1  Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
2  The picture of human life in the market-place, though its general tint was the sad gray, brown, or black of the English emigrants, was yet enlivened by some diversity of hue.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
3  The new, more conscious houses are alike in their very attempts at diversity: the same bungalows, the same square houses of stucco or tapestry brick.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
4  Nancy quickly brought a bottle from a cupboard, in which there were many: which, to judge from the diversity of their appearance, were filled with several kinds of liquids.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
5  He was unpleasantly struck, too, by the excessive contempt for others that he observed in Speranski, and by the diversity of lines of argument he used to support his opinions.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VI
6  Yet, for all this diversity in their modes of acting, each had the same success against the enemy, and each obtained the same advantages both for the republic and for himself.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: Chapter XXII.—That the severity of Manlius Torquatus and ...
7  These diversities in the form of Government spring up among men by chance.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II.
8  Prince Andrew was most favorably placed to secure good reception in the highest and most diverse Petersburg circles of the day.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
9  The Rostovs lived in the same hospitable way in Petersburg as in Moscow, and the most diverse people met at their suppers.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XI
10  There is no longer the measured quiet sound of throbbing activity, like the sound of boiling water, but diverse discordant sounds of disorder.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XX
11  Most diverse thoughts and images occupied him simultaneously.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
12  Obviously in spite of himself, in very diverse circumstances, he repeatedly expressed his real thoughts with the bitter conviction that he would not be understood.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER V
13  The motives of those who thronged from all sides to Moscow after it had been cleared of the enemy were most diverse and personal, and at first for the most part savage and brutal.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIV
14  The French found Moscow abandoned but with all the organizations of regular life, with diverse branches of commerce and craftsmanship, with luxury, and governmental and religious institutions.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIV
15  The conquered tribes move in long line, diverse as in tongue, so in fashion of dress and armour.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  Many employers seek diversity in their staffs.
17  The diverse patterns formed by their brightly colored wings have made butterfly watching a fairly popular hobby.
18  The professor suggested diverse ways of approaching the assignment and recommended that we choose one of them.
19  It provides an overview of a diverse set of more than thirty digital library aggregation services, organizes them into functional clusters.
20  Sorry, that was irreverent if you considered skiing is about the least diverse sport, especially your living in a ski town.
21  Students from countries as diverse as Colombia and Lithuania use Cambridge textbooks when they learn English.
22  He is a writer of Indian descent and draws upon diverse cultural influences.
23  Work well with a multi-cultural and diverse work force.
24  These examples serve to indicate that the voluntary sector in sport is very diverse.
25  The main road is now closed and diversions are in operation.
26  The magician's talk created a diversion of attention.
27  From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
28  High tariffs often cause a diversion of trade from one country to another.
29  The cinema provided a welcome diversion from camp routine.
30  The robbers threw smoke bombs to create a diversion.