Example sentences for: mishmash

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

  • This can lead you down the slippery slope toward plants artlessly plunked down in an unrepentant mishmash, the garden equivalent of an unshaven armpit.

  • Directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, it's a mishmash of Hong Kong sword-fighting ghost epics, Kafkaesque virtual reality fantasies, Cronenbergian visions of cybernetically enhanced flesh, Alice in Wonderland surrealism, post-apocalyptic urban grunge, Terminator -like battles of man vs. machine, and portentous lumpen-Zen posturing ("I can only show you the door.

  • ' Adding to the pile of verbal garbage is balderdash, which reaches back to the late 16th century and originally meant a `hodgepodge of liquors, such as wine mixed with beer,' perfect for washing down a mishmash of pretentious and frivolous blather.

  • The songs in Disney's Hunchback , by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, are a mishmash of the ersatz--sometimes imitating the old-fashioned Broadway cleverness of George Gershwin's brother Ira, the lyricist (as in Hunchback 's "A Guy Like You," sung by stone gargoyles, which you can listen to briefly by clicking , though I don't advise it), other times imitating the modern Broadway cleverness of Les Mis (as in Hunchback 's opening number, which you can also listen to with a click , though why?)

  • (To be fair, the Times piece does mention other forces, but I still find it an unambitious mishmash.)


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