All 4 Uses of
vary
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
- Yours, Anne THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1942 Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items.†
Chpt 42-07
- Actually, you can hardly call them that, since they're nothing but scraps of fabric, varying greatly in shape, quality and pattern, which Father and I stitched crookedly together with unskilled fingers.†
Chpt 42-07
- But since none of us are alike and are all plagued by varying degrees of modesty, each member of the family has selected a different place to wash.†
Chpt 42-09 *
- Here in the Annex the mood never varies.†
Chpt 44-03
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."