jumble

Example Sentences

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And their seemingly haphazard jumble is purposeful, reminding us that this is not a temple but a workshop, a place of ongoing activity in which new and experimental art is incubated.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

Her remains may lie somewhere beneath the modern-day urban jumble of Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

But it instantiates the way the story holds its jumble of optimism and disaster in a firm, two-handed grasp: death and chaos on one side, miracles and blessings on the other.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett’s questioning of Katyal was far friendlier than their grilling of Sauer, who spoke in a frothy jumble of run-on sentences that was often hard to understand.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2025

If the pack disintegrated too soon, they would be unable to launch the boats and maneuver in the jumble of broken and grinding ice, and unable to find a floe large enough to camp on.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong