Words similar to vagaries

Example sentences for: vagaries

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

Would that it were possible to distill the vagaries of English compounding into a five-page table: the editors are forced to offer comments like equal titles of functions (equality is not always easy to decide), words go together naturally (naturally for whom?), etc., and even then to include a column of exceptions.
Perhaps nowhere are the vagaries of such namings more obvious than in the medical profession.
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.
(Through all the vagaries of persecution and war, Nagasaki has remained the major center of Japanese Christianity. )
No amount of pointing out the vagaries of Elizabethan typesetting could shift his conviction.