How to Use vagary in a Sentence

vagary

noun

• The vagaries of the system mean that waits can be long.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• True, a lot of tax revenue is tied to the vagaries of oil prices.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• The future, an ancient sage might venture, is wide open to the vagaries of fate.
  — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
• The vagaries of plane travel are a heck of a lot more palatable with a killer carry-on in tow.
  — Andrew Craig, GQ, 15 Jan. 2018
• But part of the difference might just be down to the vagaries of translation.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2018
• The vagaries of free agency and injuries are such that no team remains the same from year to year, maybe not even from the start of a year to its end.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020
• If some of the school’s neighbors subsist on the vagaries of the corn and soybean market, Grinnell does not.
  — New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
• Since these rivers are fed by melting glaciers, their flow is not as dependent on the vagaries of the monsoon.
  — Sanjana Venkatesan, Quartz India, 2 July 2019
• Not even future Hall of Famer Theo Epstein was immune to the vagaries of baseball.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• This column is a great space to explore the vagaries of the human condition.
  — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
• With such a slippery grip on the vagaries of modern life, a homemade meal is a promise of comfort and calm.
  — Tucker Shaw, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
• Certain kinds of teams are better suited to survive the vagaries of March.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2018
• But his deeper subject is the vagaries of human nature, especially in the case of the male of the species.
  — Julia M. Klein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• The vagaries of fate—and thus the spread of disease across the map—are represented by two decks of utter bastards in card form.
  — Tom Mendelsohn, Ars Technica, 18 Nov. 2017
• The author leaves open a lot of high-tech vagaries, but the plot moves so fleetly that the reader has little chance to question it before the end.
  — Robert Croan, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2017
• In a sport with razor-thin margins and near-imperceptible vagaries, Krueger knows both sides of the calls and the breaks.
  — Chelsea Janes, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
• But for all its cool-eyed commentary on the vagaries of class, the movie has a heart and soulfulness to it that few other films could match this year.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019
• There weren’t enough drink tickets to stand around and listen to the crowd speak in hateful vagaries, or to watch them dance awkwardly on the small dance floor in front.
  — Longreads, 31 Oct. 2017
• His goal isn’t so much stylistic consistency in his wines as to have them express the vagaries of the vintage.
  — Mike Dunne, sacbee, 2 May 2018
• But their generation is tied to the vagaries of nature.
  — Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2019
• Besides, the vagaries of climate modeling are secondary to the findings of the paper, Obradovich points out.
  — Eric Roston, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
• Just another chapter in the wild tale of a horse who keeps fighting back to the front of his class despite poor injury luck and his own vagaries of mood.
  — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 15 May 2017
• The postseason is a marathon, 10-team tournament subject to the vagaries of short series.
  — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 4 Mar. 2020
• The vagaries of baseball make folly of the grandiose statement, but the National League West really does look like a four-team race to the finish.
  — Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 5 June 2018
• But part of the answer, too, is in the very things that are meant, in theory, to transcend the vagaries of quotidian concerns: our art.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2018
• Then as now, the outdoor extravaganza was subject to the vagaries of the weather.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
• But taking on debt in later life, when the health of your nest egg (and, thus, your income) likely hinges on the vagaries of the markets, is almost always a bad idea.
  — Glenn Ruffenach, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• These fliers bid big bucks for the chance Airline profits are subject to vagaries like the price of fuel, the actions of competitors on key routes, even the weather.
  — David Koenig, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2017
• Artists and writers have been exploring the idea of exploiting the quirks and vagaries of machine recognition for a while now.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2017
• For years, its path was pitted with financial strains, business vagaries and loss.
  — Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024