: including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous, various
sundry items/articles
The interior was padded and crammed with little pockets and nets for hatboxes and sundry possessions.—
Graham Robb
Graham RobbServed up with these, were sundry greens, —lichens, mosses, ferns, and fungi.—Herman Melville
Herman MelvilleIt's not just books on sale anymore—it's CD's, DVD's, greeting cards, stationery, sundry gifts, coffee and baked goods …—Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor… to protect us from colds, broken crockery, and the sundry inconveniences of a royal household.—Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson LevineAt the same time the populace, reading the news items of his doings and hearing him speak on various and sundry occasions, conceived a great fancy for him.—Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Dreiser
plural in construction
: an indeterminate number
—usually used in the phrase all and sundry to mean "everyone"
Whenever a crowd gathered, as it did at every stop, we interrogated all and sundry about the events of 1943.—Samuel Eliot Morison
Samuel Eliot MorisonCluny lashed out at all and sundry with his tail, foaming at the mouth and cursing wildly …—Brian Jacques
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Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
Just past the sundry tidbits about Trump—most horrifying, the former president’s ongoing chumminess with Vladimir Putin, a charge that Trump’s campaign denies—there lies a serious history of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
More than 14 guests can coast efficiently in style, enjoying its sundry amenities like a sauna and movie theater.
—Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
These flinty souls remain a study in principled self-reliance and human ingenuity, having supported themselves and their families for years through subsistence farming and sundry side hustles: ceramics, teaching, salmon fishing, instrument making, firewood hawking, and weed growing.
—Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
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Though the idea was a big one, CVS was getting a late start on the retail component, since Walgreens, Concentra and sundry others, including Oak Street, were invading what promised to become a gigantic market.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
Just past the sundry tidbits about Trump—most horrifying, the former president’s ongoing chumminess with Vladimir Putin, a charge that Trump’s campaign denies—there lies a serious history of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
More than 14 guests can coast efficiently in style, enjoying its sundry amenities like a sauna and movie theater.
—Giacomo Tognini, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2024
These flinty souls remain a study in principled self-reliance and human ingenuity, having supported themselves and their families for years through subsistence farming and sundry side hustles: ceramics, teaching, salmon fishing, instrument making, firewood hawking, and weed growing.
—Christine Ro, Longreads, 17 Sep. 2024
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“Sundry.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sundry. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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