Example sentences for: motley

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

  • In place of Munkàcsi's wonderfully motley and individuated agglomerations, party photographer Max Ehlert devised solid blocks of anonymous party-rally heads, or a whole sheet of stiff-arm saluters blurred into human coleslaw.

  • In one, the teen-age Stevens writes a dead-on Stevensian description of a motley village band--"the piping of flamboyant flutes, the wriggling of shrieking fifes with rasping dagger-voices, the sighing of bass-viols, drums that beat and rattle, the crescendo of cracked trombones."

  • Before 1966, we had a motley collection of teen magazines and fan club publications.

  • Lee counts on our basic familiarity with Woolf's story, and this frees her up to tease it into all kinds of subtle themes in much the same way you or I might retrospectively organize our lives under such motley headings as "Life Under Reagan" or "The Period When I Was Especially Close to Jim."

  • In the wee, wee hours it’s populated by a sometimes motley mix of early-morning newspaper sellers, streetsweepers, and bar hounds stumbling back to their apartments and hotels.


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