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UK
/mˈɪŋɡəlɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈmɪŋɡəɫɪŋ, ˈmɪŋɡɫɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈmɪŋɡəɫɪŋ, ˈmɪŋɡɫɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
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the action of people mingling and coming into contact
all the random mingling and idle talk made him hate literary parties
How To Use mingling In A Sentence
- Dickens'works are also characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
- The whole place was a riot of different voices and accents - I guessed the huge variety was due to so many different floors intermingling, all with their own fashions and traditions.
- My pulmonarias have been lovely this year, clumps of frosted leaves and pink and lilac flowers throughout the garden hiding the dying foliage of snowdrops and mingling with forget-me-nots.
- Anthropologist Lloyd Swantz, who began researching Zaramo societies as early as the 1960s, postulated that the intermingling of Swahili societies with an emphasis on patriliny might have influenced Zaramo societies. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
- He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity. Ionica
- There's something incredibly satisfying about not paying hundreds of dollars and mingling with people who have. Times, Sunday Times
- Steam rose slowly from cooling streets mingling with viscous fog, enshrouding lubricious night. Torn Among These Lovers
- Did that commingling of unrelated flavours remind me of another dish, or had it produced a breakthrough in gastronomy?
- As his voice resonated, mingling with the call of a distant koel, the mystery of the majestic edifice stood out.
- I didn't just think all of this, I talked it through to myself, a mustardy mingling of words and ham. GALILEE