Sundry
['sʌndrɪ] or ['sʌndri]
Definition
(v. t.) Several; divers; more than one or two; various.
(v. t.) Separate; diverse.
Checker: Max
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Several, divers, more than one or two, not a great many.
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Definition
adj. separate: more than one or two: several: divers.—n.pl. Sun′dries sundry things: different small things.—All and sundry all collectively and individually.
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Examples
- I have proved you in that time by sundry tests: and what have I seen and elicited? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had ninety pounds a year (exclusive of my house-rent and sundry collateral matters) from my aunt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- We landed at Philadelphia the 11th of October, where I found sundry alterations. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- There is a guard of sundry horsemen riding abreast of the tumbrils, and faces are often turned up to some of them, and they are asked some question. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He, this school autocrat, gathered all and sundry reins into the hollow of his one hand; he irefully rejected any colleague; he would not have help. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And with sundry ejaculations of 'Come now, there's a dear--drink a little of this--it'll do you good--don't give way so--there's a love,' etc. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Rebecca Crawley occupied apartments in this hotel; and had before this period had sundry hostile meetings with the ladies of the Bareacres family. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Fine girl, Sir' (to Mr. Tracy Tupman, who had been bestowing sundry anti-Pickwickian glances on a young lady by the roadside). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I know we never get up illuminations at Fieldhead, but I could not ask the meaning of sundry quite unaccountable pounds of candles. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The manager would see him studying sometimes an article in such a paper as the Scientific American, and then disappearing to buy a few sundries for experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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