How to Use variegated in a Sentence

variegated

adjective

• Place these plants in a hanging basket or on a shelf to show off the variegated colors.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2020
• Also, look at the color of the foliage: golden, gray and variegated leaves add pops of color and draw the eye through the garden.
  — OregonLive.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The gold and variegated cultivars do best in part sun to dappled shade.
  — Dawn Pettinelli, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2024
• Many have fuzzy, variegated leaves in colors ranging from light pink to dark purple and yellow to dark green.
  — Collier Sutter, House Beautiful, 1 Oct. 2018
• Which is all the more reason to acknowledge the rich bounty of work in the variegated landscape of today’s off-Broadway.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• The tree is nice and full and doesn’t require much fluffing, all thanks to extra long branches with variegated needles.
  — Erin Johnson, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• Kyle Green [e-mail] A small square of mosaic tile in the downstairs bathroom whose variegated greens fairly scream 1950s.
  — Maria L. Laganga, idahostatesman, 14 Aug. 2017
• Its burgundy, chartreuse, or variegated leaves will add an extra punch to planters.
  — Lauren Smith McDonough, House Beautiful, 18 Apr. 2023
• The key to styling success comes together with this plant pairing of woodland and meadow-like leaf shapes, variegated leaves, and big bouncy blooms.
  — By sunset, Sunset Magazine, 14 Apr. 2023
• This low-maintenance plant comes in variegated forms and cool blue shades like Clarity Blue™.
  — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 June 2024
• This plant has glossy, variegated foliage with lime edges that become golden in late summer.
  — Arricca Sansone, Country Living, 14 Feb. 2019
• In this kitchen, the variegated glass tiles inspired the color scheme of warm grays, creams, and browns, which are also repeated in the recycled glass countertop.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Dec. 2023
• The rock-like interiors are fabricated via shotcrete, the method used to construct the curving concrete forms of skateparks and swimming pools; the tones are the variegated colors of sand.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• Through it all, the variegated landscape has been painstakingly revived, building by building, trail by trail, and so much in between.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Jan. 2017
• With dramatic arching leaves and variegated foliage, spider plant likes high light but can adapt to low light levels.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 21 July 2023
• Every season, these trees shed their old rinds, revealing a new variegated layer of oranges, blues, and greens.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 12 Feb. 2020
• 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
• It is commonly called variegated ice plant or Baby Sun Rose.
  — Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 24 June 2024
• The worm spreads via a variegated fruit fly, Phortica variegate, that feasts on the tears and salty eye secretions of various mammals.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2024
• Growers must take cuttings from the plant to propagate new pink princesses, and only from the most variegated parts of a mother plant, which makes them finicky for commercial growing.
  — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 19 Feb. 2020
• 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
• His wife preferred the quick, all-online purchase Tesla offered, but the American consumer is a variegated beast.
  — Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 27 Feb. 2023
• 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
• Beauty was an expression of variegated desires, not a thing.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2021
• One of the remarkable aspects of the Toledo rally was how variegated Trump’s anger at what comes out of his television can be, even if his target is, in many ways, an imaginary television.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020
• Bill Buford has had a storied and variegated career, a mix of high and low and sensitive and almost macho — a career that has twisted gently, like a flamed citrus peel destined for a Negroni.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 25 May 2020
• Across from a dog park in the heart of Washington, D.C., stands a striking, multicolored mural, in which two women reach for each other across a space teeming with variegated particles.
  — Meredith Wadman, Science | AAAS, 24 June 2021
• The variegated subway tile backsplash features earth tones that draw the cabinets, woodwork, and hardwood floor into a harmonious whole.
  — Marisa Donnelly, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2023
• This vivacious variegated plant can sometimes be an investment piece, so look for outlets that also sell cuttings at a lower cost.
  — Kristin Guy, Sunset Magazine, 12 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024