DIFFERENT in a Sentence

Learn DIFFERENT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
420 example sentences for DIFFERENT, such as:
1. She appeared of a different stock.
2. Different gangs and different ships.
3. I'd advise taking a different approach.
4. My approach is totally different to his.
5. The area is rich in different plant species.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of DIFFERENT
different
 a.  unlike in nature or quality or form or degree
 a.  marked by dissimilarity
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  This book had a far different effect upon me from the Sorrows of Werter.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
2  But Paradise Lost excited different and far deeper emotions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
3  I thought of Switzerland; it was far different from this desolate and appalling landscape.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
4  She appeared of a different stock.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  I realize now that under different circumstances that conversation might have been one of the crises of my life.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
6  She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
8  Their intended excursion to Whitwell turned out very different from what Elinor had expected.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 13
9  Their means were as different as their objects, and equally suited to the advancement of each.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 19
10  Yet I hardly know how," cried Marianne, "unless it had been under totally different circumstances.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 21
11  His appearance, different from any I had ever before seen, and his flight somewhat surprised me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
12  I confess that I expected to see my sister denounce him, and that I was disappointed by the different result.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVI
13  Her joy was of a different kind, and led to any thing rather than to gaiety.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 43
14  Different gangs and different ships.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXVIII
15  That I cannot wish to renew that chance intercourse with you of long ago, under these different circumstances.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXXIX
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Students are all put in different groups according to their ability.
2  There are different ways in which to address a member of the royal family.
3  Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
4  The lucky winner will be able to choose from three different holidays.
5  There wasn't much vegetarian food as such, although there were several different types of cheese.
6  I am in a rather unique position, as my job is different from anyone else's.
7  We must approach the problem from a different standpoint.
8  My approach is totally different to his.
9  I'd advise taking a different approach.
10  Since our research so far has not produced any answers to this problem, we need to adopt a different approach to it.
11  South of the Usk, a completely different approach seems to hold sway.
12  The area is rich in different plant species.
13  Subjects had to attend ten test sessions on different days.
14  The author draws the different strands of the plot together in the final chapter.
15  These two different materials won't bond together easily.