Example Sentences

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The country is home to an intricate web of varyingly active faults, including many that streak through the High Atlas mountain range.

From National Geographic • Sep. 11, 2023

A few private transit undertakings had varyingly formed, re-formed, gone bankrupt, been taken over or combined since the late 19th century, using cable cars, horse-drawn cars, funiculars, electric trolleys — all manner of movable systems.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 2, 2021

But as his family members are revealed to be conniving and varyingly complicit, Marta exonerates herself – and reveals the true culprit – by always doing the decent thing.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2019

I spent most of my adult life as a self-identified bookworm, a person with stacks of Penguin Classics with varyingly colored spines throughout her home.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2019

It is in these small poems, dealing varyingly with various phases of love, that the finest, the rarest, work in the volume is to be found.

From An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Symons, Arthur