Example sentences for: amalgam

How can you use “amalgam” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In fact, Cádiz’s amazing amalgam of history is not readily apparent, with only the remains of the old Roman Theater to give much evidence of the city’s age.

  • New York 's David Denby raves about Hercules: "[p]retty much a hash, an amalgam of Ovid and everything else ...

  • Anthony Quinn performs the syrtaki dance (in fact, an amalgam of several different traditional dances) to the sound of the bouzouki, a stringed-guitar instrument that produces melodic, slightly metallic sounds.

  • He has even been known to do this in French: garde-nez nose-protector is a logical amalgam of garder to guard and pince-nez: An extravagant garde-nez of gold filigree clung to the ridge of his nose.

  • The Kinnear character (an apparent amalgam of New York Observer columnist Ron Rosenbaum and Nation publisher and editorial director Victor Navasky) is shown to be an amusingly vain and pretentious technophobe.


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