Words similar to mumbo

Example sentences for: mumbo

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

It is so delightfully dark ages to see this kind of mumbo jumbo reported right next to the real news.
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."
Another theory is that this mumbo jumbo may represent a kind of ancient pig Latin which, if properly decoded, might actually make sense.
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."