Sample sentences for VERSATILE

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Definition

useful or skillful in many different ways

She is a versatile thinker.

For an offense to be successful in the NFL, it must be versatile.
...I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
She has vast and versatile skills.
The versatile Magic Johnson could play all five positions in a single game.
An owl's versatile toe can move backward and forward.
I'm versatile.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

versatile = able to do many different things

"What does 'versatile' mean—full of eggs?" asked Wilbur.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
'Versatile' means I can turn with ease from one thing to another.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web
It's a rather astonishing organism in its versatility.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain
A company named Sonosite donated most of the cost of a compact, versatile imaging machine.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
He is too versatile in the ways of destruction.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
Fighting two-handed with just a sword gives you more power, but fighting one-handed with a shield gives you better defense and versatility.
Rick Riordan -- The Sea of Monsters
'It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.
H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
If the most versatile of living forms, the human, now fights for survival as it always has, it can eliminate not only itself but all other life.
John Steinbeck -- Travels with Charley
He was quick, huge, versatile, and athletic—in addition to playing football at USC, he'd played third base for the baseball team.
Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
You can't really believe how versatile that latheplus-milling-plus-welding arrangement is until you've used it.
Robert M. Pirsig -- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Fred had developed the most interesting and versatile repertoire.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Come to think of it, none of the Hamiltons, with all their versatility, had any versatility in love.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
Uncle Pio in Peru was even more versatile than Uncle Pio in Europe.
Thornton Wilder -- The Bridge of San Luis Rey

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