omnium gatherum

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The result is a swampy omnium gatherum of a book, a disjointed, inchoate and intriguing recital for the negotiation of which the reader desperately needs a map.

From Time Magazine Archive

She tossed up her little head in conversation with me, and gave me to understand that this party was only an omnium gatherum, not one of the select parties, from which Heaven defend us.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by Thackeray, William Makepeace

There is, of course, in very many cases an individuality gained by the "omnium gatherum" of such a mode of furnishing.

From Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time by Litchfield, Frederick

And from the lips of another lady whose face she knew, she heard after she had passed, "Don't you think it's rather an omnium gatherum?"

From The Path of a Star by Duncan, Sara Jeannette

Mrs. Lincoln's 'Boston Cook-Book' is no mere amateur compilation, much less an omnium gatherum of receipts.

From Carving and Serving by Lincoln, Mary Johnson Bailey