Example sentences for: hodgepodge

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

  • In 1990, Congress required Medicaid to phase in coverage of all children below the poverty line, along with a hodgepodge of other kids, by 2002.

  • "It is a terrible sign of intellectual and religious confusion," carped Elliott Abrams, author of Faith or Fear: How Jews Can Survive in a Christian America . "Each of these religions must remain an immutable hodgepodge of customs, superstitions, and prejudices," he did not add.

  • The result is this hodgepodge of distracting literary techniques that are only intermittently effective and mostly deeply distracting from, even destructive to, his principal goal.

  • In a sense, the Nonesuch film-music series is like the Cloisters, the hodgepodge of medieval sculpture rescued from crumbling monasteries and churches all over France and patched together in New York City's Fort Tryon Park.

  • Taking the above examples, hunkydory, higgledy-pig-gledy, hanky-panky, hocus pocus, heebie-jeebies, hodgepodge, hokey-pokey, inky-dinky, itsy-bitsy, Holterdipolter, Hülle und Fülle , as can be noted, the second element tends to be a repetition of the first, beginning, however, with a labial ( p, b, f, m, v, w ). Winkler called this the “ aleph-beth rule” and demonstrated its practically universal validity, citing evidence from both medieval and modern gaming rhymes in European and Semitic languages alike.


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