How to Use protean in a Sentence

protean

adjective

• Here are just a few of the many ways your protean pork can be put to use for lunch or dinner to get you through the week.
  — Shilpa Uskokovic, Bon Appétit, 8 Sep. 2021
• To use the journalism word for it, the story is so protean.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 2 Oct. 2017
• But not even the protean De Niro can reverse the relentless march of time.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2020
• Those who follow Mr. Vongerichten know the chef to be a protean shape-shifter.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 3 July 2017
• That protean nature is reflected in his teams and his record.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2019
• Theater, the most protean of art forms, and one of the oldest, has an especially complex genome.
  — New York Times, 20 Mar. 2020
• The Sun is dying and a bomb the size of Manhattan is all that can save it in this thrill ride from protean filmmaker Danny Boyle.
  — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 16 May 2022
• In the meantime, less protean Democrats are making the affirmative case.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Apr. 2021
• The show's politics were either protean or static in a changing world.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Sep. 2022
• In this box, works by over 20 composers receive readings that attest to his protean talents.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2021
• Lastly, and perhaps best of all, its protean appeal may be most appreciated in a Miesian, less-is-more, mode.
  — Beth Segal, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2022
• Still, Dudamel steps into a huge challenge for even a protean conductor.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2021
• But English is such a beautiful, rich, protean language to render ugly and dumb.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 25 July 2019
• In the years since, Assayas has become a critical and art-house favorite, as well as perhaps the most protean and cosmopolitan of working French filmmakers.
  — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 17 May 2018
• The twenty-four-year-old photographer’s ornate, protean wardrobe provides a kind of disguise.
  — Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 18 July 2019
• Roth’s output was protean, too wide, too deep and too fervent to truly capture in an appraisal of this length, composed overnight after learning of his death late the previous evening.
  — New York Times, 23 May 2018
• From these disparate influences, Squid has built something protean and compelling.
  — Sheldon Pearce, The New Yorker, 11 May 2021
• Hawke’s protean energy was a kind of antidote to the anxiety of abandonment.
  — John Lahr, The New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2020
• On November 28, the protean American fashion designer Virgil Abloh died at the age of 41.
  — Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2021
• That Zhao ascended to the top post just years before the Tiananmen crackdowns epitomized the protean nature of Chinese elite politics.
  — Chang Che, The New Republic, 27 Oct. 2022
• English is a big, big language — a sprawling, protean language — adopting and assimilating words and phrases from all over the world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 21 Apr. 2022
• No one has explored the protean nature of science more prominently than the Viennese scientist and philosopher Thomas Kuhn.
  — Amitha Kalaichandran, Wired, 3 June 2021
• This month, de Lucchi revisits the dining table and chair for Stellar Works, a furniture maker that shares his protean outlook.
  — WSJ, 25 Apr. 2022
• More than in other bands with a similar method, the drummer falls right into the flow: Far from serving as a steady shoreline against which those waves can crash, Podgurski can roll and fold along with them, protean and unsettled as ever.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2020
• That’s a big risk considering how protean that technology still is.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 13 May 2021
• And this thoughtful and well-presented show — the Shed’s first attempt at a major retrospective of this kind — reveals a protean artist who is in many ways even more visionary than expected.
  — Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2019
• Cabin visitors fight protean spirits of the dead with a chainsaw, a shotgun and Egyptian incantations.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• Less than sixty days out from the election, Trump, unburdened by official campaign themes or facts, seems to be chasing a surprisingly large and protean coalition.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2020
• But the conditions, and the opportunities of streaming, are also ripe for a protean, fast-working filmmaker like Soderbergh.
  — Jake Coyle, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
• All of Aviv’s subjects, herself included, live at the mercy of social and medical constructions, and yet strive to shape and reshape their irreducible, protean selves.
  — Jordan Kisner, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2022

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