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Example sentences for "assortment"

Lexicographically close words:
assoon; assoone; assort; assorted; assorting; assortments; assotted; assuage; assuaged; assuagement
  1. Their assortment of knowledge is apparently in odd mental sizes which do not fit the machinery of practical thinking as applied to life: it is like gold on a desert isle.

  2. Other clubs had bought up the best men in the market, leaving only a mixed assortment of inferior Scotsmen, Irishmen, and Northcountrymen to uphold the honour of the London club.

  3. Mr. Crook, who continued his study of his assortment of photographs without taking the slightest notice of Desmond, was a much more alert looking individual, with a shock of iron gray hair brushed back and a small pointed beard.

  4. In her hands she held a miscellaneous assortment of articles, a small gold chain purse, a pair of gloves, a gold cigarette case, a tiny handkerchief, and a long blue envelope.

  5. A tantalus stand with siphons and glasses, an assortment of different colored liqueurs in handsome cut-glass carafes and some plates of sandwiches stood on a side-table.

  6. Laying out a carefully selected assortment of her own garments for the girl's use when she arose, Mrs. Wrandall sat down beside the bed and waited, knowing that sleep would not come to her.

  7. While they were going over the extensive assortment of gowns, with Sara as the judge from whom there seemed to be no appeal, he casually inquired if she had ever posed before.

  8. In another heap she laid the sombre things of black: a meagre assortment as compared to the other.

  9. For the first few days, the harp suffered somewhat from Marietta's preoccupation, for while repeating her difficult passages, she thought only of the assortment of her silks, but at last she triumphed over her difficulties.

  10. His stock consisted of the most curious assortment of plunder one ever saw even at a Nottingham fair in the outlaw days of Robin Hood.

  11. That Twin having definitely selected Dicky out of the assortment at her command.

  12. I add an assortment of empty Snail-shells, after carefully cleaning the interior so as to make the Osmia's stay more pleasant.

  13. A comb-maker, however, well provided in tools, has an assortment of double saws set at every ordinary width.

  14. For Collectors more advanced we have an assortment of many hundreds of small books of Choice picked Stamps of every Country or District in the World.

  15. Instead of clothing, it contained the most singular assortment of scientific instruments.

  16. Maga Jhaere lost interest in Will for a moment, and pricked her stallion to a place where she could judge the assortment better.

  17. The Turk leaves his money behind when starting on a journey at some other man's expense; but they did draw forth a most astonishing assortment of weapons.

  18. After the first selection it is seen that about five or six drivers are put in the list, very many irons, and a large assortment of putters.

  19. Soleirol had quite a gallery of portraits and autographs of Moliere, and a French mathematician, about a dozen years ago, possessed an assortment of apocryphal letters from almost every one mentioned in history, sacred or profane.

  20. Contains an attractive assortment of books for boys by standard and favorite authors.

  21. Girls Banner Series A desirable assortment of books for girls, by standard and favorite authors.

  22. Contains an assortment of attractive and desirable books for girls by standard and favorite authors.

  23. Helen had the young girl's usual assortment of harmless little tricks.

  24. She had the handicap of an ingrained and incurable passion for those innocuous little tricks of manner with the men; also, she was greatly hindered by a conventional assortment of the so-called "lofty ideals.

  25. On the other side of the box is an assortment of wrenches, cold chisels, punches, pliers and hammers.

  26. One or two bits may be broken or twisted so the assortment is sometimes exhausted before the screw is started.

  27. Other cutting tools such as jack plane jointer and smoothing plane, also an assortment of chisels, belong to the farm equipment.

  28. Assortment of Files and Rasps needed in a farm shop.

  29. A large and cheap assortment of Photographic Albums, Carte de Visite Portraits, and all the materials for the new art of Decolcomania, with instructions for the same.

  30. A Large Assortment always in Stock, and any kind Made to Order within three Days.

  31. An Extensive Assortment of Gift Books suitable for Prizes, Presents, or New Year’s Gifts.

  32. A good Assortment kept of Ladies’ and Children’s BOOTS and SHOES, of the best Manufacture, at Moderate Charges.

  33. This American aggregation contained a variegated assortment of scout cruisers, gunboats, coastguard cutters, yachts, and five destroyers of antique type.

  34. I have described in some detail the stern of the ship--a variegated assortment of depth charges, shell, guns, and human beings.

  35. I want an assortment of that patriotic fervor.

  36. There was a large assortment of patriotic death-dealers such as the bill had shown--and more too.

  37. The coins were handy for distributing to beggars, of which there are a goodly assortment in Cairo.

  38. I bought shirts and collars, of which the barber kept an assortment in stock for the convenience of passengers.

  39. In fact, I never saw a room that had such a varied assortment of things--and all in harmony.

  40. From the assortment in her lap, Katherine selected the card which read Mr. James Huntington Smith, and there sure enough across the top of it were the words in pencil, "With appreciation for a very jolly afternoon.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assortment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    assemblage; assortment; batch; bunch; collection; confusion; conglomerate; conglomeration; gradation; group; grouping; hash; jumble; line; magpie; mash; mass; medley; melange; mess; miscellany; mix; mixture; motley; olio; patchwork; pile; placement; potpourri; range; ranking; salad; sauce; scramble; selection; sifting; sorting; stew; stock; subordination; sundries; taxonomy; variety