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Example sentences for: vagaries
How can you use “vagaries” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
To Henry the garden seemed the ideal place to witness the charms and vagaries of the natural world.
English orthography's quixotic, chimerical vagaries, allowing such Cheshire-cat creations as ghoti (= fish, courtesy of G.B. Shaw) and Ghoughphthleightteeaux (= potatoes; see Firmage), are notorious.
He believed there was something fundamentally unintelligible about the vagaries of a life.
But when we take time to explore the vagaries of English, we find that hot dogs can be cold, darkrooms can be lit, nightmares can take place in broad daylight, midwives can be men, hours--especially happy hours and rush hours--can last longer than sixty minutes, ice cubes can be noncubic, tablecloths can be made of paper, silverware can be made of plastic, most telephones are dialed by being punched (or pushed?)
(Through all the vagaries of persecution and war, Nagasaki has remained the major center of Japanese Christianity. )