VARIABLE in a Sentence

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The light but variable breeze, foretold by the weather expert, flapped the yellow curtain, tossing light, then shadow.

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 Meanings and Examples of VARIABLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
variable
 n.  factor; something that is likely to vary; changeable; inconstant
Classic Sentence:
1  The light but variable breeze, foretold by the weather expert, flapped the yellow curtain, tossing light, then shadow.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
2  Certainly the weather was variable.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
3  They were bringing up nets full of fish from the sea; but Isa was seeing--the garden, variable as the forecast said, in the light breeze.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 2
4  The days kept getting longer and longer, the weather was unusually variable and so were tempers; an unsettled feeling possessed everyone, and Satan found plenty of mischief for the idle hands to do.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER ELEVEN
5  Sometimes she struggled with her tears, but when she was desired to plead, she collected her powers and spoke in an audible although variable voice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
6  Besides the reasons mentioned, the nature of the people is variable, and whilst it is easy to persuade them, it is difficult to fix them in that persuasion.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI — CONCERNING NEW PRINCIPALITIES WHICH ARE ACQU...
Example Sentence:
1  The variable weather is a great trial to me.
2  British weather is perhaps at its most variable in the spring.
3  These fish are highly variable in color and pattern.
4  No opportunity for the lazy, but diligence can make the most common variable opportunity opportunity.
5  Expect variable cloudiness and fog tomorrow.
6  A table friend is a variable friend.
7  Winds are mainly light and variable.
8  The acting is of variable quality.
9  The quality of the hotel food is distinctly variable.
10  Comparison can also be important when the researcher is trying to establish what is not an independent variable.
11  It is a variable topping-up resource to meet the expenditure ceiling.
12  The weather is one variable to be considered in our trip.
13  The one big variable is the weather: The forecast is for cloudy skies throughout the day and possibly for stormy when the top riders set off.
14  Dr David Viner from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain says that natural variability in the weather is probably to blame but human influence can't be ruled out.
15  Various measures of heart rate variability have been proposed, which can roughly be subdivided into time domain, frequency domain and non-linear measures.