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How to use variegated in a sentence

12 example sentences · adjective

Variegated means streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color. Example: “It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.”

Examples of variegated by meaning

adjectiveVaried, heterogeneous, motley.

  • It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.1996 September, “No Double Standard”, in Gay Community News, page 4

More sentences with variegated

  • The grufted, gimcracky chateau was constructed with variegated stone block walls, oak floors, and a slate roof.2020, Monuments in the Dusk, Wilyem Clark, page 112. From the entry grufted
  • It may include bright foliage which can be variegated with gold or silver color.2014 October 3, Marilyn S. Larson, “Moon Gardens!”, in Tallahassee Democrat, archived from the original on 01 May 2024. From the entry moon garden
  • For those customers she recommends shrubs, especially broad-leaved evergreens like skimmia, aucuba, and variegated leucothoe.2008 April 4, Stephen Orr, “When a Garden Is a Weekend Affair”, in New York Times. From the entry leucothoe
  • They include red flints and semiflints, red dents, purple, mixed yellow and white, and variegated colors.2005, James C McCann, Maize and Grace, page 84. From the entry semiflint
  • There was no one word to describe the variegated music we spent the night with.1978 December, Andrew Holleran, “Dark Disco: A Lament”, in Christopher Street, volume 3, number 5, New York, N.Y.: That New Magazine…. From the entry discaire
  • The parson's part in the dialogue was chiefly remonstrative as to the necessity of Ned's variegated adjectives.1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia…. From the entry remonstrative
  • Spreading ground covers for shady areas include dead nettles (Lamium) and carpet bugles (Ajuga), with attractively variegated leaves.2021, Allan Haschick, Gardening in the Shade in South Africa. From the entry carpet bugle
  • A variegated, Möbius scarf was draped around her neck.2013, Lisa Van Allen, The Wishing Thread, Ballantine Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 259. From the entry Möbius scarf
  • Other grasses include bunny grass and variegated varieties.2010 July 3, Jill Ellis-Worthington, “Sitting pretty”, in London Free Press. From the entry bunny grass
  • These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass.1900, Various, Sacred Books of the East. From the entry gloriousness
  • For years the matriarchs of the family grew a plant they called "devil's back," short for "devil's backbone." It's considered a subtropical succulent with variegated leaves.2017 April 4, Betsy Singleton Snyder, Stepping on Cheerios: Finding God in the Chaos and Clutter of Life, Abingdon Press, →ISBN. From the entry devil's backbone

Meaning of variegated

  1. adjective Streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.
  2. adjective Very colorful.
  3. adjective Varied, heterogeneous, motley.

Full definition of variegated

Questions about variegated in a sentence

How do you use variegated in a sentence?
Variegated is used as an adjective. For example: “It's sexual, it's variegated, sometimetimes its messy and, for better or worse, it's ours.”
What is a short sentence with variegated?
“Other grasses include bunny grass and variegated varieties.”
What does variegated mean?
Variegated means streaked, spotted, or otherwise marked with a variety of color.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: variegated (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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