Example sentences for: concoction

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

  • The so-called alectorocephalic anguipede deity portrayed on the gem (p. 174) is not the Christian three-form god but a teratomorphic concoction of Gnostic syncretistic fantasy.

  • USA Today leads with news that might be heartening for many users of the now withdrawn diet concoction Redux: a new study suggests that short-term use of the drug is not associated with an increase in heart valve problems.

  • 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."

  • It's a bizarre concoction, but it's riveting--and I use that term advisedly, in the sense of a hack-'em-up serial killer riveting somebody's head to the side of a door.

  • 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.


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