Example sentences for: mixed-up

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

  • As we grew older we came to realize that cockamamie was merely a child's distortion of decalcomania . Later, cockamamie came to mean `cheap, sleazy, gaudy, trashy, junky'--but never “mixed-up, ridiculous.”

  • Did you ever happen to see the one where Moesha has to get glasses, except she refuses to wear them because she thinks they make her look ugly, and so she spends the entire episode bumping into things and getting into all sorts of crazy mixed-up situations because she, you know, can't see anything?

  • cockamamy (or cockamamie) `mixed-up, ridiculous.

  • Nor are they better (you asked for my favorites) than E.L. Konigsberg's From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler , or Louise Fitzhugh's books ( Harriet the Spy is best known, but the one I remember best is Nobody's Family Is Going To Change ).

  • Hey, Mambo!Mambo Italiano ...Go, go, Joe!You mixed-up Siciliano


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