Example sentences for: concoctions

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

  • We are now perversely disposed to do the same thing with clumpy boots that box feet in or puffy shoes that muffle them up with blobs or colorful wadding, to which delicious concoctions have been added--the weighty clogs with dainty straps, the lofty heels with splayed bottoms.

  • The Wall Street Journal notes that this week's recall of a major heart drug, Posicor, and the disclosure of another ten deaths of men taking Viagra, are reminders that "While pharmaceuticals manufacturers test their concoctions on several thousand subjects to monitor side-effects and efficacy, the real experiment begins only after a drug hits the market and vastly more people begin taking it."

  • The sandwiches are identical concoctions of ham, baloney, and turkey.

  • Others of Carroll's verbal concoctions are now found in our dictionaries, such as slithy (probably from slither ), gyre (from gyrate, perhaps), and chortle utter a low, deep laugh.

  • It produces such memorable concoctions as Wilde Hogge and Hammerhead.


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