Example sentences for: multifarious

How can you use “multifarious” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Consider that the OED , which makes no pretensions at being exhaustive or complete, occupies some twenty quarto volumes in its description of the lexicon alone; consider that a descriptive bibliography of the huge number of lexicographical works on the myriad aspects of English alone would occupy several similar volumes; consider the multivolume works on English grammar--by Curme, Poutsma, Jespersen, et al.; consider the immense corpus of English literature and of the writings about it; and then consider all the material ancillary to the foregoing: the teaching of English not only to foreign learners but to native speakers as well, the conventions of writing, punctuation, usage, and pronunciation, the multifarious influences of English and on English around the world, the study of style and of literary devices, etymology, etc.

  • Anyone who compares the multifarious dictionaries bearing the Webster name cannot help observing the differences in quality, quantity, and treatment offered: the name has become meaningless, made inferior by its universal application to virtually any kind of dictionary.

  • Many consider themselves qualified to offer opinions about the English language in its multifarious manifestations, but, as far as I am aware, no one has, till this book, taken the trouble to engage in a comprehensive, comprehensible review of those opinions.


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