variegation

Example Sentences

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The results are Romantic landscapes in miniature, with the variegation of the stone transforming into fields, skies and mountains whose beauty is further enhanced by the delicate metalwork in which they’re mounted.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Speaking of combining colors, I’ve heard lots of talk lately about how we should avoid using yellow variegated plants in the same beds, or even in the same garden, with plants of white variegation.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 24, 2022

But the variegation is part of Carballido’s point.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2017

But these shifts feel deliberate, like the clicking of a slide projector rather than the smooth variegation of a kaleidoscope, and the landscape always clears atop that steady pulse.

From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2016

Then there appeared to me sparks of fire out of this great mist: there appeared to me a variegation of every different colour in the world.

From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by Faraday, L. Winifred