Sentence examples for the assortment was from inspiring English sources

The seafood was tender, but the assortment was overwhelmed by calamari.

Eyeing the assortment was Sheri Phillips, a preschool teacher who is no stranger to pâpier-maché and poster board.

(At teatime half a year ago, the assortment was more unusual, with foie gras and other hints of Ms. Darroze's Southwest French origins).

The assortment is appealingly quirky, and the illustrations of little-known aesthetic traditions are handsome.

The canape tray (24 pieces for $30) has a summery look, but the assortment is ordinary.

"The fashion elements of the assortment were not speaking the same language as the basics," Mr. Morris said.

"The assortment is not that random" and suggests a collector's mind-set, said Paul Song, the director of the rare coins and bank notes department at Bonhams, in a phone interview.

Added to the assortment are contemporary pieces from Williams's designer friends that suit her vision of Technicolor eclecticism, like the Peruvian designer Meché Correa's organic-modernist jewelry, and Pacific Wonder Land's plywood lounge chairs macraméd in distinctly un-folksy color combinations.

Shelf-space models typically assume a given assortment with space-elastic demand, ignore substitution (because the assortment is predetermined), and account for limited shelf space.

The assortment is similar to what's available for in-store pickup, which equates to hundreds of thousands of SKUs.

In contrast, when consumers' regulatory orientations are prevention-focused, an increase in assortment size can have positive impacts on choice confidence levels and choice likelihood irrespective of whether the assortment is alignable or non-alignable.