Example sentences for: balagan

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

  • Utter and complete balagan!

  • And in Yiddish, balagan means mess, bedlam.

  • My guess is that the joker who named the program Balagan was a Russian-speaking immigrant, either to Israel or America, who may well have been aware of the word's currency in modern Hebrew but for whom the meaning remained the Russian one.

  • Was there in the store, I asked, a mischievous employee, a Mr. or Ms. Balagan, who playfully infected my machine with a computer virus (whatever that is)?

  • Intrigued by Milton Horowitz's A Discouraging Word [OBITER DICTA, XXII, 1, 13], I set about tracking the word balagan along its etymological course back from the modern Hebrew into which, according to Milton Horowitz quoting Herman Wouk, the word was borrowed from Russian.


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