Example sentences for: mumbo

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

  • Another rhyming reduplication, mumbo jumbo, is probably borrowed from a word in African Mandingo: Mama Dyumbo was a deity who helped husbands to bewilder wives whom they suspected of talking too much.

  • Hugh Shelton and NATO spokesman Shea answered with mumbo jumbo about "training," "operational matters," "procedural matters," and the "moving parts" of a "complex operation."

  • Indeed, the ad accuses Clinton, rather than his critics, of invoking "legal mumbo jumbo" to obscure the immorality of his misconduct.

  • ( Cool mumbo jumbo courtesy of Dawn Aberg .)

  • It is so delightfully dark ages to see this kind of mumbo jumbo reported right next to the real news.


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