Example sentences for: concoction

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

  • Powerdry, a polyester fabric designed by Malden Mills, and CoolMax, a polyester concoction from DuPont, boast two layer "dimensional wicking," an industry buzz phrase meaning sweat leaves your skin instantly then spreads out on the top layer of the fabric.

  • The strange concoction of grammar and syntax served up in the Guide no doubt confused and discouraged many of the people it was meant to benefit.

  • Among them: For several months members consumed nothing but a concoction of lemonade, cayenne, and maple syrup; they communicated with the cult leader only in writing; they were not allowed to have their own thoughts.

  • chocolate mocha the name given by a prisoner of Latin-American origin to a concoction of feces and warm water that he offered to a sick gringo prisoner.

  • Now, people have been proclaiming the death of bohemia ever since a 19 th -century Parisian, Henri Murger, wrote a book that would become an opera that would become synonymous with the artistic life right up to the moment when the whole concoction was boiled down to corn syrup in the Broadway musical Rent . Jerrold Seigel, the author of an excellent history of bohemianism, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life 1830-1930 (1986), says that when people go around saying bohemia is dead, what they usually mean is that they can't see how to wiggle free of commercialism and convention: "People experience bohemia as a form of authentic existence."


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