All 5 Uses of
vary
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- No matter how much you vary, you can make a rough average for——†
Chpt 14 *
- She thought of surprises, games, to vary the days.†
Chpt 15
- The towns remain unvaried, yet the individual faces alter like classes in college.†
Chpt 20
- She came home by the unvarying route.†
Chpt 24
- …to Sunday School and heard the teachers droning that the genealogy of Shamsherai was a valuable ethical problem for children to think about; when she experimented with Wednesday prayer-meeting and listened to store-keeping elders giving their unvarying weekly testimony in primitive erotic symbols and such gory Chaldean phrases as "washed in the blood of the lamb" and "a vengeful God"; when Mrs. Bogart boasted that through his boyhood she had made Cy confess nightly upon the basis of…†
Chpt 28
Definition:
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(vary) to be different, or to changeeditor's notes: Vary is often used to describe small differences or changes--especially about things of the same type. It would be more common to say "The weight of full-grown elephants varies depending upon diet and other factors," than to say "The weight of elephants varies from that of mice."