sundry

in a sentence

A few of the books had been shaken roughly enough to part company with the covers and sundry pages littered the floor.  (source) J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 2007

To reach the courtroom, on the second floor, one passed sundry sunless county cubbyholes: the tax assessor, the tax collector, the county clerk, the county solicitor, the circuit clerk, the judge of probate lived in cool dim hutches that smelled of decaying record books mingled with old damp cement and stale urine.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

We have come here in order to inquire and search into the matter of Mistress Katherine Tyler, lately of Barbados, who is accused by sundry witnesses of the practice of witchcraft.  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, 1958

Matthew nodded over a FARMERS' ADVOCATE on the sofa and Anne at the table studied her lessons with grim determination, despite sundry wistful glances at the clock shelf, where lay a new book that Jane Andrews had lent her that day.  (source) Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Of Green Gables, 1908

Cosmetics, Potions, Poisons & Sundries — 4.†  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero, 2010

Did he seem to tolerate us—the brutal conqueror, the sundried bureaucrat, that sort of thing?†  (source) E. M. Forster, A Passage to India, 1924

I have proved you in that time by sundry tests: and what have I seen and elicited?  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

Sundries.†  (source) Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006

Do I not order my various and sundry minions to be kind to you at school?†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

The Rodina had found herself in need of experienced seamen to pilot ships into the ports of Murmansk and Archangel, to which the Allies were bringing weapons, food, and the sundries that allow a modern army to function.†  (source) Tom Clancy, The Hunt for Red October, 1984

As if the expense and trouble were not irksome enough, all and sundry insisted on salting Ned's wound by calling it "the Hand's tourney," as if he were the cause of it.†  (source) George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, 1996

Meat and Sundries Store.†  (source) Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye, 1970

Of course, Grandmother would have complained bitterly about the party revelers—and about such a "sundry" guest list, given the diverse personalities and social stations of a typical Dan Needham cast; but Grandmother would, at least, have been occupied.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989