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
That news organizations across the globe unfurled reports of Heche’s death in a hodge-podge fashion throughout the weekend proved disconcerting but was not without precedent.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2022
The rest were a hodge-podge of home remedies, “quacks and butchers,” and the occasional skilled surgeon willing to risk it all.
From Slate • Jun. 15, 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
And you have as much gall as a turkey cock, and are as hot into the bargain—You're always so hasty; among the hodge-podge of your foibles, passion is always predominant.
From Inkle and Yarico An opera, in three acts by Colman, George
