How to Use variegated in a Sentence

variegated

adjective
  • For variegated types, that’s actually the preferred way, since rooted cuttings often send up new shoots that are just plain green.
    — Margaret Roach, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2025
  • For variegated types, that’s actually the preferred way, since rooted cuttings often send up new shoots that are just plain green.
    — The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Some are round, others torpedo-shaped, big and small and with rinds that are variously black-green, golden, variegated or striped.
    — Washington Post, 5 Nov. 2019
  • The arts cease to be a broad and variegated field of human expression and become a key to unlock the mystery of political violence.
    — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2022
  • The world on the monitor was transfigured from a blank expanse to a colorful and variegated landscape teeming with detail.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Inside the structure, dozens of rows of plants — monstera albos, variegated alocasias and anthuriums — enjoy the warm, humid air that surrounds them.
    — Anna Braz, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • His wife preferred the quick, all-online purchase Tesla offered, but the American consumer is a variegated beast.
    — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
  • There’s also a variegated variety.
    — Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 20 Dec. 2025

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