protean

How To Use protean In A Sentence

• The _Pompilidæ_ are species of great beauty, some closely resembling those of Australia in the banding and maculation of their wings; amongst the _Vespidæ_ will be found some of the most elegant and beautiful forms in the whole of that protean family of Hymenoptera. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
• The boundaries of its, and its historians ’, concerns have been flexible, even protean.
• A guild of musicians with the chops to tell Parker—the most protean improvisator of the bebop era—to come back when he's ready is one tough union. A Little Evil Will Do You Good: Kansas City Jazz
• The mineral, carbonate of lime, assumes an immense diversity of characters, though no one doubts that under all these Protean changes it is one and the same thing.
• Sexuality appears to be a protean, shifting concept because it is instantiated at multiple levels.
• The differential diagnosis of the mild seroconversion illness is protean and, without a high index of suspicion and a history indicating relevant risk behaviours or factors, the diagnosis may be missed.
• She was so many-sided, so many-mooded — “protean-mooded” I called her. Chapter 28
• Its capacity to straddle different genre classifications is mirrored in the protean life that it has enjoyed through stage, film and musical adaptations.
• There was a creature of burnished shadow in her, dark and sleek and protean. SACRAMENT
• And that's the kind of protean, brand-spanking-new-for-now category I'd like to live my reading and writing life in. Archive 2006-03-01