Example sentences for: concoction

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

  • You add the dressing (I chose a low-fat, 30-calorie concoction) then shake vigorously.

  • USA Today leads with news that might be heartening for many users of the now withdrawn diet concoction Redux: a new study suggests that short-term use of the drug is not associated with an increase in heart valve problems.

  • 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.

  • 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."

  • 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.


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