How to Use variant in a Sentence

variant

noun

• A new variant of the disease has appeared.
• The cheese is a variant of the farm’s Bayley Hazen blue cheese.
  — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2024
• The Omicron variant had emerged like a creature from the Black Lagoon.
  — Allysia Finley, WSJ, 19 Nov. 2023
• The plane is planned to be produced in variants with and without pilots.
  — CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Perhaps there could be an evil Loki variant who pushes the good one off the throne?
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
• Just four cases have been spotted of the variant worldwide.
  — Alexander Tin, CBS News, 17 Aug. 2023
• One new variant that had raised alarms, known as BA.2.86, has turned out to be less of a threat – and lab tests suggest that the new booster will work against it.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2023
• Experts have pointed to a new variant, BA.2.86, that has emerged in recent weeks.
  — Jessica Bartlett, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
• While there are a slew of variants in circulation in the U.S., BA.2.86 remains very rare.
  — Sara G. Miller, NBC News, 5 Sep. 2023
• Over the years, researchers have honed variants of LLL to make the approach more practical — but only up to a point.
  — Madison Goldberg, Quanta Magazine, 14 Dec. 2023
• There’s also no word yet on when the new roadster variant will arrive, though this time next year seems a safe bet.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 11 Feb. 2024
• In the alert, the CDC said that a variant of the bacteria that causes the illness has reported 140 cases this year so far.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 1 Apr. 2024
• For example, the researchers found variants that may have helped sled dogs grow strong bones and muscles, as well as a thick coat.
  — Alex Orlando, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
• The rate was even higher in the Bahamas, where researchers found that 23% of patients carried a variant on their cancer genes.
  — Deborah Balthazar, STAT, 1 Aug. 2023
• The model variant adds hybrid power, all-wheel-drive, and a few top-notch touches to make the sports icon more of a four-season grand tourer.
  — Tim Stevens, Robb Report, 13 Oct. 2023
• That is, at least until a new variant shows up that may escape all of this built up immunity.
  — Alice Park, Time, 2 Aug. 2023
• Apple looks set to continue with a consumer variant of the MacBook Pro.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• Is that an aneurysm waiting to burst, or a harmless vascular variant?
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2024
• But the structure of these spike proteins can change as the virus evolves, causing vaccines to become less effective against new variants of the virus.
  — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Mar. 2023
• Much like the Pokémon Eevee, the rural folk across the world are sprouting musician variants at a remarkable pace.
  — Vulture, 10 Nov. 2023
• And some new variant evolving from the Chinese outbreak could spoil 2023 for everyone else.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023
• Physical sales were a big draw, with five different variants of the vinyl version alone.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Nov. 2023
• There’s a theory that this Greek season may offer up a variant of the existing Kratos skin to take him back to his younger Greek god-killing days.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The four-cylinder Bronco with the automatic transmission is the thriftiest variant, with ratings of 20 mpg in the city and 22 on the highway.
  — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 11 Aug. 2023
• In the summer of 2021, the Delta variant hit the state hard, and about twenty-three thousand Floridians died, nine thousand of whom were under sixty-five.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• The answer is still unclear, but scientists found a growth hormone variant that traces back to ancient wolves.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2023
• Some variants include the soldier and starfish positions.
  — Brianna Kamienski, The Arizona Republic, 23 Feb. 2024
• Their results were from a period of the Covid-19 pandemic before the Omicron variant had emerged.
  — Anuradha Varanasi, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• For that, SpaceX is planning two other Starship variants.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
• But this variant tends to cause less severe illness than earlier strains.
  — Helena Oliviero, ajc, 26 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024