How to Use multifarious in a Sentence

multifarious

adjective
  • The efforts to cut short that shadow have been many and multifarious.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025
  • That road has been a constant and multifarious one for Jones.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2022
  • Isn’t any great book multifarious enough to have something for everyone?
    Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Georgiana in her multifarious endeavors of both the pianoforte and the heart.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Each item, sampling Ray’s multifarious subjects and means, scores a discrete shock.
    Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Other members of that now-defunct conclave are folks Otash has crossed paths with in the course of multifarious doings.
    Tom Nolan, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • But the multifarious state of the reckoning is very much an argument for a commission.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 20 May 2021
  • Though his features are few — the character never gets an aria of his own — his voice is a thing of multifarious sumptuousness.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2024
  • No other form of writing feels so strange, so multifarious, so completely and utterly new.
    Tom Bissell, WIRED, 19 Mar. 2013
  • The reasons for this alarming gap are, like the causes of addiction itself, multifarious.
    Zachary Siegel, Harper’s Magazine , 30 Aug. 2022
  • Greater agility will be a highly sought after skill, as the type of issues facing leaders post-pandemic can be multifarious.
    Sairah Ashman, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
  • No single response can blunt these multifarious activities, but transparency is the place to start.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2018
  • He is widely seen as understanding the multifarious mechanics of sanctions, a rare feat.
    New York Times, 13 May 2018
  • Or, more precisely, a truly creative artist who mastered the textbooks of music, then put them aside and forged a stunningly multifarious path all his own.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Over the course of his multifarious career, Metheny has led numerous bands, more than a few of whose members later became band leaders in their own right.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Legislators need to realize that big tech is self-protective and eschews state boundaries in multifarious ways.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 12 June 2026
  • There are custom T-shirts, multifarious fan art, an online forum and a dedicated posse keeping constant watch.
    Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
  • In more recent years, especially, Byrne has channeled his multifarious discoveries through a prism of joy.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 26 Mar. 2026
  • This year’s Summerfest will chart a multifarious path that brings to mind the words of the late author, teacher and social activist Grace Paley.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Expectant mothers are not routinely screened for CMV and the reasons why are multifarious.
    Essence, 19 July 2022
  • Nervous systems are diverse, and so the aesthetics and emotions that are part of these experiences no doubt take on multifarious textures across the animal kingdom.
    David George Haskell, Wired, 8 Mar. 2022
  • Joined by thousands of concerned citizens and multifarious experts, an epic and terrifying battle of constantly changing unknowns had to be won to save them.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 2 Sep. 2021
  • The pianist seemed to my ears to be insightfully examining Beethoven’s process of grieving the loss of his hearing, the multifarious emotions flying forth.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 24 Mar. 2017
  • In the age of Instagram, Jane Birkin’s personal style often eclipsed her multifarious talents.
    Faye Fearon, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
  • In the age of Instagram, Jane Birkin’s personal style often eclipsed her multifarious talents.
    Faye Fearon, Vogue, 14 Dec. 2024
  • That includes this particular telling, rendered by a multifarious cast of five, under the direction of David Herskovits.
    Ben Brantley, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2018
  • With its meta high jinks and emotional heft, its stark architecture involving just one character and a chorus of his multifarious thoughts, it has rightly been called radical in both form and content.
    Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Times, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Even with the expectation that Story may face some bumps in trying to regain his timing, the Sox see anticipate a multifarious upgrade.
    Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
  • The only thing that has prevented Twitter’s stock from falling to single digits over the past few months has been the multifarious rumor of a possible acquisition.
    vanityfair.com, 4 Jan. 2017
  • The presenters on the telecast were far more diverse — far more representative of the multifarious energies of popular culture — than the winners.
    Manohla Dargis, A.o. Scott and Wesley Morris, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2018

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