How to Use vagary in a Sentence

vagary

noun
  • True, a lot of tax revenue is tied to the vagaries of oil prices.
    — The Economist, 29 June 2019
  • The future, an ancient sage might venture, is wide open to the vagaries of fate.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The vagaries of plane travel are a heck of a lot more palatable with a killer carry-on in tow.
    — Andrew Craig, GQ, 15 Jan. 2018
  • But part of the difference might just be down to the vagaries of translation.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2018
  • The public ones are subject to the vagaries of Wall Street.
    — Vicki M. Young, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The rest, only time and the shifting vagaries of the season, will reveal.
    — The Athletic Uk Staff, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2025
  • As a result, those close to him have felt that there have been some vagaries around his role within the team since his arrival.
    — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Since these rivers are fed by melting glaciers, their flow is not as dependent on the vagaries of the monsoon.
    — Sanjana Venkatesan, Quartz India, 2 July 2019
  • For years, its path was pitted with financial strains, business vagaries and loss.
    — Jennifer Peltz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2019
  • This column is a great space to explore the vagaries of the human condition.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 1 July 2019
  • With such a slippery grip on the vagaries of modern life, a homemade meal is a promise of comfort and calm.
    — Tucker Shaw, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Certain kinds of teams are better suited to survive the vagaries of March.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Wealth buys choice, leverage, and a cushion for the vagaries of a market economy.
    — Teresa Ghilarducci, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Their bond is strained both by the vagaries of politics and by the slow stirring of Arthur’s conscience.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2025
  • But then, need doesn’t always figure into the vagaries of human desire.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 27 Sep. 2017
  • The vagaries of free agency and injuries are such that no team remains the same from year to year, maybe not even from the start of a year to its end.
    — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2020
  • Drahi and his team wouldn’t be the first, or the last, corporate titans to trip and stumble in the vagaries of the art market.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • The vagaries of the Civil War are also hard to intuit at times.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 22 May 2026
  • As well as the vagaries of the wind, there’s a strong current flowing through the Hudson, sometimes as much as three knots.
    — Andrew Rice, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • If some of the school’s neighbors subsist on the vagaries of the corn and soybean market, Grinnell does not.
    — New York Times, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Maybe made worse by the vagaries of summer vacations and inconvenient bus rides.
    — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 31 July 2019
  • But his deeper subject is the vagaries of human nature, especially in the case of the male of the species.
    — Julia M. Klein, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
  • But for all its cool-eyed commentary on the vagaries of class, the movie has a heart and soulfulness to it that few other films could match this year.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 12 Dec. 2019
  • Irma’s story may be one of a monster storm that could have been even worse and the maddening vagaries of storm forecasting.
    — Joseph B. Treaster, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The author leaves open a lot of high-tech vagaries, but the plot moves so fleetly that the reader has little chance to question it before the end.
    — Robert Croan, Detroit Free Press, 17 June 2017
  • Just another chapter in the wild tale of a horse who keeps fighting back to the front of his class despite poor injury luck and his own vagaries of mood.
    — Childs Walker, baltimoresun.com, 15 May 2017
  • Then as now, the outdoor extravaganza was subject to the vagaries of the weather.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2018
  • In a sport with razor-thin margins and near-imperceptible vagaries, Krueger knows both sides of the calls and the breaks.
    — Chelsea Janes, Houston Chronicle, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Artists and writers have been exploring the idea of exploiting the quirks and vagaries of machine recognition for a while now.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Which means the vagaries of late October are pretty familiar for this franchise and the bulk of these players.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 17 Oct. 2025

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