How to Use variously in a Sentence

variously

adverb

• He has been variously described as a hero and a villain.
• The term is spelled variously in different places.
• The concept of freedom has been variously understood by different people.
• The statue has been variously dated from the end of the first to the beginning of the third centuries.
  — Francesco Sportelli, BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2023
• None of these variously amusing strands amounts to much, but then, things not amounting to much is sort of the point.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 11 Feb. 2022
• Lights placed variously in the floor, on the wall posts and overhead combine to highlight the best features of guests and decor.
  — Valli Herman, latimes.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The model and beauty founder has worn it variously sleek and smooth, wet-look, and with lots of salty, beachy texture.
  — Hannah Coates, Glamour, 30 June 2023
• Jack is variously described and self-described as a ne’er-do-well, a reprobate, a black sheep and a scoundrel.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2020
• The tailgate can be variously used as a stand-up desk, bar, or stairway into the bed.
  — Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2021
• In the brightness of the afternoon, a wall of trees outside was variously green: dark pine, mild maple, vivid oak.
  — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2023
• The tour continues through the end of the year with a mix of headlining dates and gigs variously supporting the Strokes, Beck, and Phoenix.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2023
• The birds have white and black plumage, and a beak that’s variously described as being orangish-pink and reddish-orange.
  — Gary Robbins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• In the end, CBS agreed to pay him what has been variously reported as $2.2 million a year and $8 million over five years.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• This gives the space a narrow central passage with shelves of different depths and widths obtruding variously all the way to the back of the unit.
  — Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 15 Sep. 2020
• Above the podium, a bundle of metal tubes, variously ridged, rounded, squared off, streamlined, and half-piped, shoot up along the façade.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 3 Aug. 2023
• Olmec, Toltec, Maya, Aztec—that found ways to exploit the bean, which was variously used as a monetary unit, a measuring unit and a meal.
  — Franz Lidz, Smithsonian, 11 July 2019
• The concrete is variously scored, gouged, wavy, and polished.
  — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 Sep. 2021
• The killings were variously blamed on Mafia vendettas, black vigilantes, a bootleggers war and the drug trade.
  — William Thornton, AL.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• As with Harvey’s best songs, the poems were variously dirty, bloody, bawdy, and moving, depending on the theme.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 8 Nov. 2023
• In the 20th century, the region was variously carved up between Italy and what was then Yugoslavia.
  — Tara Isbabella Burton, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2021
• Mr Corbyn was variously portrayed as a pantomime villain and a threat to the nation.
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• One reason the strike lasted so long was that picketers received a stipend from the union, variously reported as $20 and $30 per week.
  — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Jan. 2022
• This slim book on the legacies of colonialism has been described variously as a jeremiad and a mock travel guide.
  — Bo Seo, The Atlantic, 1 June 2022
• The answer was variously sushi; hummus and pita; and one day, it was spinach salad with eggs and bacon bits with blue cheese dressing.
  — Stephanie Dolgoff, Good Housekeeping, 30 Sep. 2020
• The primordial heebie-jeebies—revulsion perceived variously in the spine, the molars, the bristling of hairs on the back of the neck—are conjured best with images that beam the feeling straight to the flesh.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• The saying, variously attributed, is that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
  — Bob Ford, Philly.com, 7 July 2017
• The big cats, found mostly in Florida and the West and known variously as panthers, pumas and cougars, went extinct in Missouri in the 1920s from overhunting and trapping.
  — Edward McKinley, kansascity, 3 July 2018
• With the valve opened and the stream lighted the oil is thrown forward in burning globules to a distance variously estimated at from ten to thirty yards.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• Wall panels and wardrobe doors opened to reveal, variously, a garden, a snowdrift, and a deer carcass hanging on a gambrel.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 29 July 2024
• These are available variously at the website of the band’s label, their own webstore, and indie retailers.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024