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run the gamut

vb. (context idiomatic English) To encompass the full range or variety possible.

Usage examples of "run the gamut".

Heaven only knows what a psychochemical wilderness the world will be when all the tailored pheromones and augmentary psychotropics have run the gamut of mutational variation.

If you examine science in its everyday aspect, of course you find that scientists run the gamut of human emotion, personality and character.

Actually, Mercedes Rael wasn't much for walking around town at night, but occasionally she did manage to jump the picket fence surrounding Nick's house and yard and go for some protracted aimless strolls, either up into the mountains, in which case a posse usually had to be formed to hunt her down before she starved to death, or else sometimes she liked to wander down the middle of the north-south highway dressed in whatever she happened to be wearing at the time, which could run the gamut from elaborate floor-length lace nightgowns and puffy lounging robes, to nothing.

If you examine science in its everyday aspect, of course you find that scientists run the gamut of human emotion, personĀ­.

Visible offences are as varied as the local dialects, and run the gamut from the smuggling of rum and prohibited aliens through diverse stages of lawlessness and obscure vice to murder and mutilation in their most abhorrent guises.

They run the gamut of horns, fangs, claws, scales, and leathery skins.

These run the gamut from the rather primitive electroencephalogram, or EEG.

To run the gamut of the suspension bridge was no mean feat, as it turned out.

You run the gamut of the bottom of all Faerun when you seek to uncover the past.

It had run the gamut from the flush of excitement to the pallor of apprehension.

It had run the gamut of bad taste, from speculation about Nefret's parentage to prurient hints of harems and white slavery.

His clients have run the gamut from '60s radicals such as Abbie Hoffman to establishment politicians such as Governor Frank Keating.