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Example sentences for: mumbo

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

Like many people, I was baffled when I first read his poems in high-school anthologies: "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" sounded like antique mumbo jumbo in comparison with the up-to-the-minute adolescent angst of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
An interesting mix of genres (vampire and Western) winds up as a hokey mess: "[T]his gummy mix of fake-Catholic mumbo jumbo and teeth-in-neck horror goes limp" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). "[T]he unintended campiness of Vampires makes Night of the Living Dead look like an episode of Nightline " (Michael O'Sullivan, the Washington Post ). But Gene Siskel praises the film, calling it "surprisingly entertaining" ( Chicago Tribune ). (Watch the trailer.)
Hugh Shelton and NATO spokesman Shea answered with mumbo jumbo about "training," "operational matters," "procedural matters," and the "moving parts" of a "complex operation."
Another theory is that this mumbo jumbo may represent a kind of ancient pig Latin which, if properly decoded, might actually make sense.
( Cool mumbo jumbo courtesy of Dawn Aberg .)