VARIANCE in a Sentence

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It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.

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 Meanings and Examples of VARIANCE
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variance
 n.  an event that departs from expectations; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value
Classic Sentence:
1  The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  And as she looked into Scarlett's stormy green eyes, her slight shoulders straightened and a mantle of dignity, strangely at variance with her childish face and figure, fell upon her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
3  He was in an intermediate state between sleeping and waking; at variance with himself, with his company, with the country, and with the government.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
4  It is a point difficult to fix where the features and countenance are so much at variance as in your case.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  In a worldly view, he had nothing to gain by being on terms with Sir Walter; nothing to risk by a state of variance.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
6  It was a text which might seem to the casual observer at variance with the lofty morality elsewhere preached by Jesus Christ.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In GRACE
7  The district-attorney's persistence was visibly at variance with the sentiments of every one, of the public, of the court, and of the jury.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III—JAVERT SATISFIED
Example Sentence:
1  The developer requested a variance to build a shopping center on the east side of town.
2  Tradition and culture are often at variance with the needs of modern living.
3  Survey data indicate no variance in church attendance between blue- and white-collar workers.
4  Young people's reactions to world events are often at variance with those of their parents.
5  We shall refer to this as the minimum variance criterion.
6  The variance and the closely-related standard deviation are measures of how spread out a distribution is; in other words, they are measures of variability.
7  More than half the variance between people in intelligence is also genetic, Mr. Shane reports, adding that smarter people "tend to be less satisfied with their jobs."