Example sentences for: vagaries

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

  • But the vagaries of spelling are such in our language (see the list at chain ) that one never can tell where to look for words unless they are to be listed in some uniform fashion.

  • 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.

  • The article by Bill Bryson [XVII, 4] on the vagaries of English abroad unfortunately also serves to illustrate the lack of linguistic understanding which exists between our two countries.

  • Professor Norman Shapiro [XIV,2] makes a remark in his letter that I have often thought about, “the vagaries of eponymous celebrity.”

  • To Henry the garden seemed the ideal place to witness the charms and vagaries of the natural world.


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