HETEROGENEOUS in a Sentence

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Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.

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 Meanings and Examples of HETEROGENEOUS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
heterogeneous
 a.  consisting of dissimilar elements or parts; completely different
Classic Sentence:
1  Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  It was a small group still, with heterogeneous figures suspended in large unpeopled spaces; but Lily did not take long to learn that its regulation was no longer in Mr. Stancy's hands.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
3  The town was as heterogeneous as Chicago.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Something of the salt sea yet lingered in old Bildad's language, heterogeneously mixed with Scriptural and domestic phrases.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18. His Mark.
Example Sentence:
1  This year's entering class is a remarkably heterogeneous body: it includes students from forty different states and twenty-six foreign countries, some the children of billionaires, others the offspring of welfare families.