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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The interior is a comfortable amalgam of Chinese and Western design, with an impressive main lobby.

  • On the wall, though, Flag is a magnificently variegated surface, an intensely made thing, a dense amalgam of newspaper, encaustic, and paint.


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