How to use "different" in a sentence

Stuck between them, as far as I can see, are boulders of different sizes

I don't want to break the knife, so I use a different part of the multi-tool

I also think of all the adventures I've had with different friends

I was also taking eighteen different medicines a day

They were in a different rabbit-hole now.

'Am I different?' she wondered

I was Alice yesterday, but everything is different today

'I'm not Ada because her hair is different to mine

He put the animals and birds in different places in the room

Everybody started to run at different times and stopped at different times too

Everything was different now

It did not speak for some minutes, then it said, 'So you're different, are you?'

Some of the words are different,' said Alice.

'Somewhere different,' Alice said.

'Somewhere different,' repeated the Cat

She looked up, and there was the Cheshire Cat in a tree - a different tree.

He got up and sat in a different place.

'People are different here,' he told me

She was different

Her hair was different, and she looked a bit older, and a bit tired, but it was her all right

During that period fifteen different and greatly distinguished citizens have, in succession, administered the executive branch of the government

And while it is obviously possible that such decision may be erroneous in any given case, still the evil effect following it, being limited to that particular case, with the chance that it may be overruled and never become a precedent for other cases, can better be borne than could the evils of a different practice.

A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.

The world is very different now

But he did not know that this killer was different - clever, efficient, and savage

But another witness told a different story.

Leblanc took his daughter to a different bench, to see if Marius would follow them

That night at home, Marius opened the package and found that it contained four letters, all addressed to different people, and smelling strongly of cheap tobacco

However, there was something strange about them: although they all seemed to be written by different people, they were written on the same rough paper in the same handwriting

As 'Monsieur Jean', he gradually became a different person to her, and she began not to depend on him for her happiness.

No! No, listen, don't go, listen to me, when I return to London, everything is going to be different

He takes you to one of his old factories on the Thames, and then he shows you the boxes and the addresses of all the different locations in the world.

And Gerry remembers the old factory on the Thames and the boxes with the different addresses and the story about what Big Jones does when people steal from him

There is something different about him

"Yes," says Peter, "of different types

"You see, we all have very different ideas about what the perfect murder is

They say this is premeditated murder because for half an hour Miss Lee looked for Mr Dawson; they also say she made her intention clear on three different occasions

"Look," she says, her voice different now, "I saw you looking at me yesterday

And you can see your room now, though everything seems strange and different, and everything makes you feel more afraid.

It smells no different, he thinks as he enters

You could run, ride a bicycle, climb, or jump on different machines, which created energy, so then you added the units to your wrist chip

You have to remember that his situation is different from yours

Her mom was a food scientist in the meat-growing laboratory, developing different kinds of meat from just a few animal cells

How wonderful to think that there might still be a different world out there - a world where you could do all those things for real!

nine floors down, she stepped out into a different world

You learn things in a completely different way because your whole body is involved

"But Cham," she said, "what if there was a better future - something completely different?"

She decided that they needed to talk about something different, because she'd come here to make things better, not worse.

it was you in there, wasn't it? Your voice sounded a bit different, but apart from that..."

She looked very different now that she was in her own surroundings - more friendly and unthreatening

A different world

But different, separate, and kind of lonely

His nose looked a little longer, and there was a different curve to his lips

Worse than that, he seemed different

His character seemed different

But maybe they've noticed he's different, too," said Gran

different?" asked Sala desperately.

He laughed and smiled and seemed happy to see them all; but to Sala, he was different

We could have a different future

I would have become a different person.

'Your friend is very different from you,' he said at last

For me, it is different

'I'm different from you

The morning-room was quite small and very different from the library

She shook hands with me and said to Maxim, 'She's quite different from what I expected

You are so very different from Rebecca.'

She said I was quite different from what she expected.'

It was very different here from the Happy Valley

And when I meet anyone new, I know what they are thinking: "How different she is from Rebecca." '

I felt different from yesterday

'You looked quite different when I saw you before,' Beatrice told me

I felt different already

'Tell Mrs Danvers to order something different,' I told him

'There were three of them, in different parts of the boat

'Perhaps Mrs de Winter gave you a different name,' Colonel Julyan suggested.

During the twelve years of their marriage, Tina had become a different and more complex person than she'd been on their wedding day, but Michael hadn't changed at all - and didn't like the woman that she had become

Scraps of music, split-second flashes of disc jockeys' chatter, single words from different somber-voiced newscasters, and fragments of commercial jingles blended in a cacophonous jumble of meaningless sound

When Tina squeezed into the narrow gap between the tables and caught Michael's attention, his reaction was far different from what she had expected

Although she was different from Nancy in many ways, being with her was like being with Nancy

Kennebeck held several jobs in different intelligence organizations

If they had seen something, they'd have come back with at least a dozen different stories about it, none of them accurate

It was something very different, something exceedingly strange."

That's why they've been so much different from any dreams I've had before, so much stronger and more vivid."

Part of this antagonism between them rose because they had been born into utterly different worlds and were equally proud of their origins - as well as disdainful of all others

What you've done is altogether different

She couldn't pinpoint what else about his eyes made him so different from any eyes she had ever seen, but as she met Danny's gaze, a shiver passed through her, and she felt a profound and terrible pity for him.

I knew that Henri had caught the fly because it looked different from other flies, but I also knew that his father hated cruelty to animals and that there would be a fuss if he discovered our son had put a fly in a box or bottle.

'Do you feel any different?' I asked, touching his arm.

I've never met a man more different from his name

And I expect everyone thinks it is somebody different

'It was something very different, but I can't say more just now.'

'That's different

And all because it reminded you of something very different, something about a bag of wood for the fire.'

'Then there was that shot I heard,' said Miss Marple, 'Yes, the sound was different from the usual sort of shot.'

No, Miss Marple didn't think it had been louder, just different

The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found

If only that note had said something different.' She moved towards the window and on her way put her hand into the pot of a rather tired houseplant

'Yes, but a different one

She is dying, and she wanted to see me, so she came down here using a different name

We, the people who live on this Earth, must seem to them at least as different and less developed as monkeys are to us

My feelings were quite different

Then, from a different direction, a fifth one came towards us

In three other ways their bodies were different from ours

We were very different people with different habits of thought and action, and those differences increased because we were living together in this dangerous place

Each one thought it was a different place

It is full of different types of fish

Things could be different

Laura and I are very different: she's blonde, and I'm dark; she's beautiful, and I'm ugly; she's rich, and I'm poor

But with Laura it was different.

Madame Fosco is different from the Eleanor Fairlie I once knew

Perhaps he had a beard or different coloured hair

In many countries and at different times in history, girls had very little or no education

There have been many women who have fought for human rights in different countries

Today, there are still many women fighting for human rights in different parts of the world

Each wave looked at different parts of the same problem

They fight to be different from how some men want to see them, and from other women.

She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she is the only woman to win the Nobel Prize for two different topics.

Her father did not want her to be a scientist because it was difficult for women, and he told her to study something different

But the numbers change a lot in different countries

In 1921, Amelia had lots of different jobs

But she soon knew that tennis was different for women than for men.

Today, women in many different countries are using MeToo every day to tell people about the assault and harassment they get