MYRIAD in a Sentence

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15 example sentences for MYRIAD, such as:

1. And now myriads of bars and hotels are opening up along the coast.
2. There was the trampling of myriad feet and the low buzz of voices.
3. He was interested in everything, and asked me a myriad questions about the place and its surroundings.
4. She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds.
5. The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.

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 Meanings and Examples of MYRIAD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
myriad
 a.  of very large or indefinite number; of ten thousand
Classic Sentence:
1  She was a brown little creature, with skinny legs like a bird and a myriad of pigtails carefully wrapped with twine sticking stiffly out from her head.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
2  It was the color of her skin, without the glow, the myriad living tints that one may sometimes discover in vibrant flesh.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
3  "Oh," she sighed, pegged down on a chair arm, like a captive balloon, by a myriad of hair-thin ties into domesticity.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 1
4  She was like a forest, like the dark interlacing of the oakwood, humming inaudibly with myriad unfolding buds.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
5  He was interested in everything, and asked me a myriad questions about the place and its surroundings.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
6  There was the trampling of myriad feet and the low buzz of voices.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
7  The wind blew over him and passed on to the myriads and myriads of other souls on whom God's favour shone now more and now less, stars now brighter and now dimmer sustained and failing.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
8  I felt that this grey monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners, and its splendid sins, as you once phrased it, must have something in store for me.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 4
9  The wind had blown the fog away, and the sky was like a monstrous peacock's tail, starred with myriads of golden eyes.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
10  I would leave him to imagine himself surrounded by myriads of invisible tormentors, ever ready to snatch from his infernal grasp his trembling prey.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  The water in the fountain, pellucid as crystal, was alive with myriads of gold and silver fishes, twinkling and darting through it like so many living jewels.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
Example Sentence:
1  It faced huge supply chain problems due to a myriad of problems at its warehouses, poor communication with headquarters and the use of inexperienced staff.
2  The Sochi Olympics have been tainted by myriad controversies during the buildup – from gay rights to corruption – and many expected the Games themselves to be similarly disastrous, with concerns about the intrusiveness of security, the absence of fans and shoddy construction work.
3  In China, for example, where a number of different dialects are spoken, the same character can be pronounced in myriad ways.
4  And now myriads of bars and hotels are opening up along the coast.