hodge-podge
Example Sentences
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It's why my hodge-podge accent – neither entirely Southern nor Northern – made me feel self-conscious to speak, compounding my anxieties about exposing my already shaky grasp on the language.
From Salon • May 12, 2024
However sheepish this hodge-podge crew seemed before, everyone spends the next hour quietly panting as their limbs flail in uncoordinated dance to music only they can hear.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2022
Three of Silvia’s teenage students studying English — Tatyane Kataoka, Juliane Soares, and Nicole Enomoto — represent the language hodge-podge.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2022
Some are retired teachers, while others are younger, college students looking for something different - "a hodge-podge of different people", he says.
From BBC • Jul. 9, 2021
To the average educated American, scenery is a pleasing hodge-podge of mountains, valleys, plains, lakes, and rivers.
From The Book of the National Parks by Yard, Robert Sterling
