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US
/ˈdʒəmbəɫ/
]
[ UK /dʒˈʌmbəl/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈʌmbəl/ ]
NOUN
- a confused multitude of things
- a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
- small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
VERB
-
be all mixed up or jumbled together
His words jumbled - bring into random order
-
assemble without order or sense
She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence
How To Use jumble In A Sentence
- A reed basket of ha'penny nails to go with it lay in the jumble of objects at the far end of the table; something perhaps left behind by the carpenters who had furnished the room. Sick Cycle Carousel
- Furniture and papers were all jumbled together in disarray.
- While this is happening, what appeared at first to be a spaghettilike jumble of the ninety-two chromatin strands condenses into chromosomes that upon close examination are actually twenty-three pairs of pairs, that is forty-six pairs or ninety-two chromosomes in all. THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD
- When reviewers and prize jurors tout a repetitive style as "the last word in gnomic control," or a jumble of unsustained metaphor as "lyrical" writing, it is obvious that they, too, are having difficulty understanding what they read. A Reader's Manifesto
- The faces in the end zone are a jumble as the noise envelops him with each jarring stride.
- This morning I was pawing through my jumbled collection of socks, looking for a match to an olive one I had already plucked from the drawer.
- He rummaged through the jumble of papers on his desk.
- I love the mix of old and new furnishings, the sense of history in flagstoned kitchen and ancient Aga, the jumble of meadow mixed plants in gardens, the tactile wools and silks and cottons, the worn wooden floors.
- These words are jumbled up and don't make sense.
- How can I find that letter when all your papers are jumbled up like this?