VARIOUS in a Sentence

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I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.

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 Meanings and Examples of VARIOUS
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various
 a.  different from one another; of different kinds or sorts
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  The commandants of the Yankee troops in the various cities had complete power, even the power of life and death, over the civilian population, and they used that power.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  At various times during Senior year Carol finally decided upon studying law, writing motion-picture scenarios, professional nursing, and marrying an unidentified hero.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
4  Mr. Schnarken was at various high moments a cook, a life-guard, a burlesque actor, and a sculptor.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Thus I soon engaged his interest; and from that we went to jabbering the best we could about the various outer sights to be seen in this famous town.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10. A Bosom Friend.
6  Soon the crew came on board in twos and threes; the riggers bestirred themselves; the mates were actively engaged; and several of the shore people were busy in bringing various last things on board.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21. Going Aboard.
7  Now the various species of whales need some sort of popular comprehensive classification, if only an easy outline one for the present, hereafter to be filled in all its departments by subsequent laborers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
8  And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
9  In one of those southern whalesmen, on a long three or four years' voyage, as often happens, the sum of the various hours you spend at the mast-head would amount to several entire months.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. The Mast-Head.
10  I thought to find one stubborn, at the least; but my one cogged circle fits into all their various wheels, and they revolve.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 37. Sunset.
11  All Beale's drawings of this whale are good, excepting the middle figure in the picture of three whales in various attitudes, capping his second chapter.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
12  Every whale-ship takes out a goodly number of letters for various ships, whose delivery to the persons to whom they may be addressed, depends upon the mere chance of encountering them in the four oceans.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story.
13  The one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold, was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table furnished with several vices, of different sizes, and both of iron and of wood.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
14  In various enchanted attitudes, like the standing, or stepping, or running skeletons in Herculaneum, others remained rooted to the deck; but all their eyes upcast.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 119. The Candles.
15  Mr. Pontellier was very fond of walking about his house examining its various appointments and details, to see that nothing was amiss.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
Example Sentence: (119 in 8 pages)
16  The bath oil comes in various fragrances.
17  The students show various degrees of skill in doing the experiments.
18  The various elements of the novel fail to cohere.
19  We tested various supermarkets' own label pasta sauces.
20  The artisan can cut stones into various shapes.
21  All morning he'd been closeted with various officials.
22  They were subjected to various indignities and discomforts, including having to get dressed and undressed in public.
23  Wheat is grown in various parts of the.
24  In the various regions of India, Hindus worship different gods and observe different religious festivals.
25  We had various problems on our journey, including a puncture.
26  The Creole language is really various dialects arranged on a continuum.
27  His pockets were lumped with various articles.
28  The subject may be viewed in various ways.
29  The vacuum cleaner has various attachments.
30  Children give vent to their anger in various ways.