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?
Max's even more dismal New York is cast in jumbled patterns of black, white and grey, until Mary sends Max a bright red pom-pom which he wears atop his yarmulke.
The dark cover designed by art director Carole Otypka has the letters of the magazine's title jumbled along the bottom of the page, instead of the top. The Seattle Times
When I opened my mouth, a jumbled mess would tumble out. Times, Sunday Times
My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis. Critical Conditions
This jumbled exercise by Bulareyaung Pagarlava amounts to a shapeless sampler of miscellaneous moods and shticks, from the cloyingly cute to the utterly arbitrary. A Cautionary Tale in Dance
And unlike the preceding White Album, the jumbled juxtaposition of forms - faux-blues toss-offs, stately piano ballads, folkie hootenannies - feels less like a band overflowing with inspired ideas than one running out of them.
Here's a Christian name all jumbled up. Can you unjumble it and find the name?
Other drawings and photographs, projected as slides or mounted on easels, picked out details of the city, highlighting the jumble of old and new.
Though it may look like a jumble, hopefully after breadboarding the circuit and studying the circuit diagram, the photos will make more sense.
The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
If he fell, he would plummet 60 feet straight down onto the jumble of boulders strewn at the base.
The closing minutes of the first semifinal heat saw a strong set, some jumbled take-offs and a few crowd-pleasing wipeouts.
She was wound up, jumbled inside like a spilled jigsaw puzzle.
Gail nodded and bit her lip again, turning her attention back to the game board and staring at the jumbled patterns of red and yellow marbles.
The Connemara ponies settled in and seemed surefooted in sharp, jumbled rocks, deep mud and steep angled inclines and declines.
Here are jumbled together manifestos from the Bauhaus, Surrealism, Dada, the Suprematists and the Futurists.
His words jumbled
She would go to jumble sales and buy old crockery that she would take home and throw, piece by piece, against the wall. Times, Sunday Times
The stony path wound up the hill past a cave shrine and spiralled between one last jumble of boulders.
It came out then, in jumbles, mixed with hiccuped tears. August 27, 2008. «
My mind is a jumbled mess and I don't know what to do. Times, Sunday Times
But, conversely, this jumble drives home a point seldom stressed: Theological differences may have mattered greatly to devotees, but a bronze caster or stone carver was just as happy making a Buddha as a Vishnu; the iconographies differed, but the styles stayed the same. A Crayon Heir
How can I find that letter when all your papers are jumbled up like this?
As he held her hands, images tumbled into her mind, a confused jumble.
These jumbled priorities should be no cause for surprise.
It was more a small room, and it contained jumbles of clothes.
It does not, however, have to be a dizzying jumble of clutter.
In the midst of this societal jumble is Albert Fish, serial killer and cannibal. GreenCine Daily: Interview. John Borowski.
How can I find that letter when all your papers are jumbled up like this?
Anaxagoras, that the reason of the inequality ariseth from the commixture of things earthy and cold; and that fiery and caliginous matter is jumbled together, whereby the moon is said to be a star of a counterfeit aspect. Essays and Miscellanies
The works, while clear, are also ambiguous; a number look ramshackle, jerry-built, jumbled - even chaotic.
I suppose he didn’t want to be accused of choosing something for us to do that would have seemed old, like attending a Rich Little show or doing word jumbles. I know i am, but what are you?
Were I to conjecture, I should say that the whole will centre, before it is long, in Mr. Pitt and Co., the present being an heterogeneous jumble of youth and caducity, which cannot be efficient. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
Books were a jumble and I had no notion of discriminating between them.
arguments" the term venerable is used instead of mouldy, and hallowed instead of devilish; whereas there is nothing properly venerable or antique about a language which is not yet four hundred years old, and about a jumble of imbecile spellings which were grotesque in the beginning, and which grow more and more grotesque with the flight of the years. Chapters from My Autobiography
In other words,(sentence dictionary) a random jumble can not spontaneously assemble itself into some orderly structure without tapping some outside energy source.
A similar jumble of more or less everything found near the nest forms, as we know, the barricade of the Manicate Cotton-bee, who is also an adept at using the Snail's stercoral droppings after these have been dried in the sun. Bramble-Bees and Others
She jumbled her keys in the keyhole and waved a quick goodbye before running up the stairs.
Believe it or not, I often lay in bed at night hearing a jumbled mixture of different voices from a mishmash of past unpublished interviews.
HOLMES: It was German and English in there, but they were kind of jumbled, you couldn't make it out. CNN Transcript May 14, 2007
When you wander into the Tabernacle Church Hall it reeks of bazaars and jumble sales.
We have a jigsaw puzzle with the pieces jumbled up.
It turns out our credit histories had been linked and jumbled.
Fund-raiser Elizabeth Sykes said that while youngsters could collect jumble with their parents, other volunteer helpers now had to undergo a police check.
Other drawings and photographs, projected as slides or mounted on easels, picked out details of the city, highlighting the jumble of old and new.
In a split second the opposite hand rapidly sweeps the length of the tool catching the ants in a jumbled mass between thumb and forefinger. Cultural Anthropology
At the moment I have left the list higgledy-piggledy, like a jumble sale of books, as it appealed to me that way. 50 Best Books « Tales from the Reading Room
She laid a hand on his arm, stilling the flood of jumbled thoughts and rambling words that poured from his mouth.
Even after we had become used to the fascinating jumble of treasures piled throughout the house our visits were marked by an anticipatory, nervous excitement.
Fields curve around jumbled outcroppings, huge chunks of fragmented rock appearing in time to halt a tractor before it barely reaches working speed.
Around the front door was a jumble of wild roses and he went up the path and knocked lightly.
Unlike other home-giveaways where contestants are required to write lengthy and subjective essays, The Perfect Place Contest requires players to earn the highest score on a skill-based, puzzle-based online game, similar to the word jumble games in the newspaper. Press Release
Unless you tidy up, everyone can see the gruesome jumble of cables.
They were jumbled together with samples from other parts of China. The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness
Toys, books, shoes and clothes were jumbled on the floor.
Her large, almond shaped honey eyes glinted with a jumble of emotions, especially worry.
She jumbles the words when she is supposed to write a sentence
In the worst cases no such meaning exists, and parsing the text reveals only hints of sense in masses of gibberish; other times the alchemy succeeds, and a plain emphatic version of the writer’s intentions suddenly emerges from the jumble of jargon like the hidden image in an autostereogram. December « 2008 « Sentence first
She steered clear of charity shops - there was rarely anything that she could afford - but found church jumble sales a good source of cheap clothes. Times, Sunday Times
The outside light had faded and the crammed interior was a dim jumble of dark shapes under the solitary bulb.
Inside it was like a Victorian jumble sale with kitsch ornaments everywhere, and the cluttered rooms lit only by the orange glow of 40-watt bulbs in frilly lampshades.
The marine environment seethes with a jumble of signals.
Currently, the village hall has bookings for only the keep-fit group, a private party and a jumble sale.
The readings were jumbled up, with wrong amounts taken from my bank account. Times, Sunday Times
A series of questions ranging from word jumbles to math equations test students on the same facts and concepts they're learning in school, reinforcing their lessons in a fun new way. SolSie.com
Jewelry, belts and scarves were jumbled in the bottom drawer.
For decades McGarrell has been known for complex paintings that jumble myth, invented fictions and surreal landscapes.
If you only use tyres recommended for your car by major manufacturers, you'll probably never glance at the jumble of letters and numbers on the sidewall, and never need to.
Emma sat on her large waterbed, her thoughts jumbled.
I mumbled with some effort as a name floated out of my jumbled mind. Lost Brother
Some are from jumble sales or bins. The Sun
The Baildon Ladies Circle will hand over kagouls, rucksacks and other equipment to the home on Owlet Road, after raising £100 with sponsored knit-ins, a jumble sale and toy sale.
How can any sense be made of what may appear to be a chaotic jumble of attitudes?
Already the grim images of the war have become jumbled in my mind.
Up close, the jumble of marks and bright unmixed colors is almost incomprehensible, but when viewed from a distance the floral images coalesce and gain structure.
Built in 1792 as a summer retreat, it's a charming legacy of the days when Azerbaijan was a chaotic jumble of rival khanates and principalities.
We ascend, our cameras out of film and our slates covered in a jumble of barely decipherable notes.
We started with a favorite salad, a purply jumble of slivered red cabbage and lemon, and then moved on to panade, which is pretty plush and sexy as winter dishes go. Orangette
Even after we had become used to the fascinating jumble of treasures piled throughout the house our visits were marked by an anticipatory, nervous excitement.
She steered clear of charity shops - there was rarely anything that she could afford - but found church jumble sales a good source of cheap clothes. Times, Sunday Times
The sacristy was a jumble of prayer books, vestments, broken rosaries, crucifixes, and pictures. The Red Horizon
I'll know that you and I and God and everything, ever, are all jumbled and jigsawed in ways none of us could imagine I'll Walk Through You
She would go to jumble sales and buy old crockery that she would take home and throw, piece by piece, against the wall. Times, Sunday Times
Plenty of incondite stuff accordingly there was; new, and in a strangely new dialect and tone; the audience intelligent, partly fashionable, was very good to me, and seemed, in spite of the jumbled state of things, to feel it entertaining, even interesting. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
Nobody else in the family gave anything for the jumble sale, but my sister came up trumps.
The name cervelas — Switzerland’s jumble of languages yields other spellings, including cervelat, zervelat and servelat — is derived from cerebellum, Latin for brain, since the sausage originally consisted of pork and pigs’ brain. Swiss Sausage Fans Fret Over How to Save Their Skin « Isegoria
As far as I'm concerned, dreams are just your mind filing away the things that passed through your mind and got jumbled up during the day.
The word Coptic, for instance, had now its proper significance in her mind, and the terms dynasty and century were no longer jumbled hopelessly together. There was a King in Egypt
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
But the sound has been turned down and the mix is so jumbled that it's impossible to derive anything from them.
When you run out of paper or the words you write are jumbled up, think of the hourglass passing sand from the top to the bottom.
Snow cornices lie deep into the early summer and, on a clear day, the views north to the Glen Shiel hills and beyond display a jumble of hills and mountains that seem to roll on indefinitely.
Miranda Goode have found that test subjects who are reminded of money prior to engaging in a word jumble descrambling exercise exhibit more self-sufficienct orientation compared to control subjects to whom neutral language is read prior to the exercise. The Brain, Money, and Law & Economics
A set of exquisitely carved ivory chessmen, a moa egg, stuffed birds, and bird skins, although jumbled in with rubbish, were all neatly catalogued.
At college he built up a lucrative sideline touring local church and jumble sales for clothes. Times, Sunday Times
About 10: 00 that third morning we sneaked into a jumbled tangle of woods and blowdowns that I was fairly certain hid a gobbler. Uncategorized Blog Posts
Many of the shelves are already cleared and the rest are an untidy jumble.
Is very jumbled, and is sure to hard-working, you repair a suitable eyebrow, remember that you brows the most appropriate location, using depilatory creams painted look, be careful.
Around 6km of crenellated walls and arched gateways enclose a tight jumble of streets and cafe-lined squares.
The numbers are not in sequence, they are all jumbled up.
But all of it is jumbled together in a way that at the end the reader is left empty, if amused.
It's unlicensed so if you need some bevvies to jumble up the courage, get tanked up elsewhere.
The austere landscape had shifted from barren scrubland to enormous jumbles of rocks that looked as if God had forgotten to straighten them up.
In sharp contrast to the autobiography, it tends to be prolix and muddled with excessive detail, and it often reads like a jumbled mix of fantastic stories.
It's a move toward what some call gastronomic naturalism, where the geometric forms of haute cuisine are being replaced by walk-in-the-woods jumbles of ingredients and flavors, ushered in by French chef Michel Bras, whose restaurant Laguiole boasts three Michelin stars. Slashfood
Seeing as his friend was obviously unable to think with so much clamor round him, Everett led the way through the jumbled desks.
An exhausted jumble of execrations directed at himself, the hellish place, and everything within it ran through his mind.
Don't jumble up one question and another.
You may not feel able to tell your parents but may well be left with a jumble of confused feelings. The Sun
This is a solid in which the atoms are not regularly arrayed as they are in a crystal, but are more jumbled.
We ascend, our cameras out of film and our slates covered in a jumble of barely decipherable notes.
Inside was a jumble of chromium-plated bits of metal, hunks of broken glass, a large slab of dented mud guard, and a sheaf of the inevitable evidence envelopes. The Moor
At college he built up a lucrative sideline touring local church and jumble sales for clothes. Times, Sunday Times
His thoughts were jumbled and confused, and they only became more disoriented as a horrible transformation began to take place.
Sitting at their rough-hewn wooden table, I watch through the window as their father collects cedar firewood from a jumbled pile near the box-car.
They admitted that the inherited structure was a crazy, shapeless jumble which the business had long outgrown. MANAGEMENT: task, responsibilities, practices
The sacristy is a jumble of wooden equipment crates, tall gold candelabras, cables and paints that conservator Naoko Fukumaru mixes and holds up in swatches to the original to ensure the color, depth and finish are true to life. The Art of Replicating Masterpieces
Autojumble, show and shine, engine clinics and track runs in your own car. The Sun
In the store the long shelves upon one side held dry-goods, while upon the opposite shelves a miscellany of groceries was displayed; toward the rear was the storekeeper's assortment of hardware near a counter piled high with sweaters, boots, chaparejos, all jumbled hopelessly. Man to Man
It was a jumble "of narrow walled alleys 'hutongs' with gates leading to residential compounds containing internal courtyards joined by 'moon gates' and south-facing single-storey houses with pitched roofs, paper-covered windows, and ancient wooded lattices. A quick peek behind China's wall
Whether galloping off with Sophie nestled into the soft skin of his ear to capture dreams as though they were exotic butterflies; speaking his delightful jumbled squib-fangled patois; or whizzpopping for the Queen he leaves an indelible impression of bigheartedness. Planet-x.com.au » AudioBooks Roald
she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers
To be fair, amid all the grumbling he finds plenty to admire, not least the lovely medieval jumble of Old Town in Estonia's capital, Tallinn; the music of Arvo Pärt; the Grimm flair of Estonian names Tarmo, Gerli, Epp; and, with characteristic contrariness, Vana Tallinn, a revolting liqueur of unidentifiable sickliness and bogus antiquity. Stranger In a Strange Land
ALAN of Cardiff - the jumble sale painting is very valuable. The Sun
The names appear jumbled but group together those who worked side by side or were simply friends. Times, Sunday Times
There were hordes of people at the jumble sale.
It is also a 70-year-old jumble of bureaucracy and inefficiency and misaligned incentives. Times, Sunday Times
The buildings are tall, weather-beaten grey sandstone, a pleasing jumble of medieval and modern.
They made tracks, piling up the jumble on either side.
The essay was a meaningless jumble of ideas.
The plot is a jumble of overcooked clichés, and the movie can't seem to decide if it's following Russell or his wimpy pussy of a partner.
She gets some typed-up speech, one page, with the letters of each word jumbled up. Assignment
But, now, she was scrawling badly jumbled words in an old spiral notebook that she rarely ever used.
One for the jumble sale or a priceless treasure? Times, Sunday Times
He jumbled up everything in the drawer to find his key.
I feel like something flung together at the last minute, something made out of jumble sale cast-offs and things won at fairgrounds.
As we arrived at the square the normal jumble of carts, wagons, stalls, and milling people that we saw every day greeted us.
You may not feel able to tell your parents but may well be left with a jumble of confused feelings. The Sun
Actually, come to think of it, the person responsible for this here jumble of junk should be punished, not rewarded.
The last week, a jumble of emotions complicated me and all I could do was mope around the house, stewing in them.
Around her whirled a kaleidoscope of unfamiliar faces, a jumbled chorus of voices sounding in ten different languages.
From its neat grid of streets which parallel the long waterfront, a more chaotic jumble of lanes wriggle up the hillside.
In a split second the opposite hand rapidly sweeps the length of the tool catching the ants in a jumbled mass between thumb and forefinger. Cultural Anthropology
As it happens in this utter jumble of a plot, their conversation takes place nearby exactly the sort of man Jonah likes to interrogate, that is, a dead one. PopMatters
All the small zygodactyl or semizygodactyl forms, generally from Eocene deposits, are jumbled together in the family Zygodactylidae.
The babies scrambled, churred, and trilled affectionately, ending up in a jumble in his lap. Beast Master's Circus
Do they also have jumble sales and spelling bees? Times, Sunday Times
The episodes are jumbled up on the viewing order, so that won't help you at all.
Charity shops and jumble sales welcome usable clothes.
The Perfect Place Contest requires players to earn the highest score on a skill-based, puzzle-based online game, similar to the word jumble games in the newspaper. Press Release
The steeply sloping reef was covered in a jumble of steel hawser, deck plates, twisted girder and hand-rail.
She expects me to drive round collecting jumble for the church.
On the surface it might appear to be any other word-jumble from the subset of Japanese gaming that only two small handfuls of obsessive sub-culture fans in the West can appreciate, but again, let me assure you this is different. Ten for 2010: the 10 most-anticipated games coming in the new year Boing Boing
But your hostility to science will not serve those aims; and your embracing of an ill-assorted jumble of mutually contradictory alternatives will lose you the respect that I think you deserve.
** Chapter Nineteen My feelings were jumbled, which is not a good posture for a clinical psychologist during a crisis. Critical Conditions
West has built his huge success on an alluring jumble of mixed messages. Times, Sunday Times
Then th 'young woman coom agean wi her armful o' what lukt to be flaars an feathers an ribbins all jumbled in a lump, but which proved to be what they called hats, an as shoo put furst one an then another on to Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect
West has built his huge success on an alluring jumble of mixed messages. Times, Sunday Times
They came swarming downstream, transports filled with palace servants and slaves and all their accoutrements and paraphernalia, barges laden with oxen and goats and chickens for the kitchens, gilded and gaily painted vessels bearing cargoes of palace furniture and treasure, of nobles and lesser creatures, all uncomfortably jumbled together in a most unseamanlike fashion. River God
At college he built up a lucrative sideline touring local church and jumble sales for clothes. Times, Sunday Times
Personal snapshots from abandoned family albums turn up in all kinds of places, ‘from postcard fairs, to jumble sales, and dingy halls beside arterial roads,’ as he puts it.
Within, she found a confused jumble of random thoughts and an intense feeling of pain.
All of these numerous territories are full of confusion since each contain electorates, duchies, bishoprics, dominions of margraves, landgraves, princes and free cities - all jumbled together.
Straddling a sharp turn of the Wuyang River, its picturesque jumble of stone and concrete houses line banks loomed over by steep, humpy hills.
From blenders to eggbeaters, it's all here, somewhere, in this deliciously jumbled secondhand-cookware store.
You know you made a really interesting comment that sometimes all these numbers get kind of jumbled up. CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2009
Pope has a scratchy, dark drawing style that tosses characters and objects together in an impressionistic jumble.
A pawnshop is a bit like a flea market crossed with a garage sale and a jumble shop. News from www.nptelegraph.com
You may not feel able to tell your parents but may well be left with a jumble of confused feelings. The Sun
Coinciding with the International Autojumble at the Beaulieu Motor Museum in Brockenhurst, south England Sept. 10-11, Bonhams will hold an auction there that Saturday featuring cars, motorbikes and automobilia. Baby, You Can Drive My Car
My front-gallopers swerved in among the jumble of fallen masonry and scorched timbers, howling like dervishes; I saw one of them sabring down a pandy who thrust up at him with musket and bayonet, while another rode slap into a big, white-dhotied fellow who was springing at him with a spear. Fiancée
They will call it artsy or pretentious and declare it as confusing and jumbled. Ken's Review: The Fall - Much More Than Eye Candy « FirstShowing.net
He jumbled up everything in the drawer to find his key.
The Miltech shop is a jumble of jigs, tools and fixtures, each dedicated to a specific task, such as an original M1 barrel vise.
A jumble sale will be held in the village hall on Saturday.
He jumbled up everything in the drawer to find his key.
At the same time, after years of ecstatic expansion, traditional information technology departments found themselves entangled in an unsupportable jumble of disparate and antagonistic systems.
She was gasping for breath as her mind rambled a jumbled conglomerate of disjointed thoughts at him.
Probing the topsy-turvy jumble of wreckage, I spotted the parallel lines of tank tracks.
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God. Alexandre Dumas
If Mr Stæhlin was not grossly imposed upon, what could induce him to publish a map so singularly erroneous, and in which many of these islands are jumbled together in regular confusion, without the least regard to truth; and yet he is pleased to call it _a very accurate little map_. [ A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
The whole disc is jumbled riffing and passages that are ham-fistedly smashed together, making each ‘tune’ come plodding out of the speakers like a wet, grumbly fart.
the papers were hopelessly jumbled
Dastardly attempt to win the cause of the working girls by dirty scab leaders and butter-fingered capitalist class," it began, and after this followed a wild jumble of words, words without meaning, sentences without point in which Sam was called a mealy-mouthed mail-order musser and The Windy McPherson's Son
One of his daughters remembers him leaving a jumble of Post-it notes on the fridge but that was about the extent of his literary leanings. Times, Sunday Times
There was a limpid pool of emerald water rimmed with brown sand, set in a giant's jumble of rubbed granite blocks.
She acquired the painting at a jumble sale for the princely sum of 25p.
His desk is a chaotic jumble of books, journals, miscellaneous documents, and baby pictures of his three children.
West has built his huge success on an alluring jumble of mixed messages. Times, Sunday Times
These jumbled priorities should be no cause for surprise.

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