Sentence examples for variant on this from inspiring English sources

Silly me: this is home, where she was born, where she is part of, and her life here will be one long variant on this trip to the swimming baths, a negotiation between her expectations and the expectations that others have of her.

The Cloisters is an important variant on this, what you might call earnest ersatz.

My first acquaintance with the Swedish-made Kronan bike was a variant on this.

It never quite worked out, though Letchworth continues a variant on this even today.

(A variant on this is when the narrator meets someone who has fled the town of... etc).

Beautiful plumage!" He played another variant on this little man who ultimately wins through in the highly successful 1988 film A Fish Called Wanda.

There are many variants on this theme, including using anchovies or ginger.

There are several variants on this theme, including the single-player arcade mode, which suffers from the occasionally suicidal behaviour of your computer-controlled team-mates.

(Variants on this theme include walking on stage to discover that we've learned the wrong part, or finding that the stage is a giant mattress on which we can't stay upright).

In film, especially sci-fi, there is a rich tradition for characters to only exist because they have gone back in time, possibly met their own grandmother and conceived their own fathers - or variants on this - in cause and effect.

Immediately a pointed four-note thematic statement is announced by the horns, though only rough variants on this motif seem to reappear as guideposts to the work, a 25-minute, shimmering, fitful score that builds in waves of sound.