Sample sentences for VARIEGATED

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having a variety of colors

The color displayed a slight variegation, like the mottled light at the bottom of a clear forest pond.
Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

A pack of wolves, running low to the ground, their brindled fur shining in the variegated light.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
Its empty holds are ingurgitating a vast, continuous rush of murky brown seawater, sucking in that variegated sewage like a drowning man sucks air.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
The sentinels glanced at him with disbelief, their upturned faces tinted the color of tarnished brass by the variegated light.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Get some boughs of laurustinus, and variegated box, and yew, and boy's-love; ay, and some bunches of chrysanthemum.
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
_Nora_ (_takes out of the box a tambourine and a long variegated shawl.
Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House
The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the sky are the same leaden gray.
Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
The butcher leaped heavily sideways to avoid being mowed down into the variegated debris.
Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
But the crotons were lusher than ever and the variegated bougainvilleas she hadn't thought would take were heavy with pink blossoms.
Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
Its teeth were smooth, variegated.
Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
An immense crowd was passing to and fro in the Neffsky Avenue; a variegated stream of ladies flowed along the pavement.
Nikolai Gogol -- The Nose
I will not submit to this aimless passing of billycock hats and Homburg hats and all the plumed and variegated head-dresses of women.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
His shirt collars were higher; his face was redder; his shirt-frill flaunted gorgeously out of his variegated waistcoat.
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
They grew scattered, as if wild, among the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
50 3 skeins of variegated yarn (cap, scarf) = 1.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
Always a good party man, Lincoln feared the Republican Party would disintegrate if it sacrificed the one principle its variegated supporters held in common.
Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
The Kendal green, though its date is more ancient, ought surely to be as dear to our feelings, as the variegated tartans of the north.
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
I had surprised her with it one night, a lovely large dieffenbachia with emerald-and-cream variegated leaves.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me

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