How To Use Mishmash In A Sentence
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The story of the dream itself was a mishmash of recent events.
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She pushed through the door and past the dark mahogany bar, her eyes trailing over the mad mishmash of mirrors and chandeliers, the wood-panelled walls bedecked with mottled old Chinese prints, the crazed fruit plasterwork on the ceiling.
The Priest
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The House on the Rock is an architectural mishmash, patched together, built into the rock in places and teetering way out over it in another.
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But a simpler, more robust fighting game would have been preferable to this mishmash of styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The busy layered paintings, a mishmash of pattern and photorealism in every colour under the sun, look like computer-age psychedelia.
Times, Sunday Times
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Can he replicate elaborate shapes or does he tend to make a mishmash?
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‘Where is the Line’ is a mishmash of ideas, sounding like a fight between a choir and a rack of effects boxes, with neither winning.
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Next to the mishmash of blackened dahlias, nicotiana rose staunchly and the roses that had been buds the day before were unfurling.
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The game then degenerated into a real mishmash of misplaced passes and precious few chances.
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The documentary itself is an awkward mishmash of styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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He actually had to provide the paragraphing for that tortured mishmash of fractured syntax, misplaced punctuation, and just plain bad writing
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In short it's a logically incoherent mishmash that seems to rumble along despite it's evident inconsistencies and flaws.
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Underlying the idea of the multitude is a mishmash of confused claims.
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Film-making, like any other profession, relies on a mishmash of creative terms, jargon and technospeak, allowing effective communication between cast and crew.
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The documentary itself is an awkward mishmash of styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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This accounts for the mishmash of styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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It reaches as High as a timequake-world in which the surface of our planet, acting under the influence of a large number of mysterious floating globes, tessellates into a mishmash of historical periods.
Archive 2010-01-01
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I've yet to see a more peculiar mishmash of rock, soul, blues and bubblegum pop on one concert disc.
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Amid all the Easter dinners and visiting, prime-time television tried to lure viewers with a mishmash of first-run episodes, specials and repeats, and CBS won the night in total viewership — helped by the new Hallmark Hall of Fame movie Beyond the Blackboard.
Ratings: Beyond the Blackboard Helps CBS Chalk Up an Easter Win
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Isn't it just a mishmash of cultures being re-exported after being processed and packaged in the US?
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It had been a fantastic dream, a mishmash of style, gaud and history, and the Queen's magnetic personality had seemed to blend these together, creating odd, delightful harmonies and strangely beautiful effects.
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In season a mishmash of trypots, harpoons, windlasses and long boats were collected on the beach, ready for a shout from a lookout high on Paritutu.
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He wore a long, faded green cloak over his worn mishmash of clothing: a tunic, trousers, and scuffed boots.
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So at this point, it's really become a mixture, a mishmash of issues.
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The girls' high-street finery, a Lycra mishmash of tat and glitter, sparkles feebly under red, yellow and purple neon strip lights.
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Both our little beds are a mishmash of sheets and blankets and threadbare pillows and the floor is covered in our old sports trophies and other such junk.
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This accounts for the mishmash of styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The letter was a mishmash of ill-fitting proposals taken from two different reform plans.
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The magazine is a jumbled mishmash of jokes, stories, and serious news.
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The new housing development is a mishmash of different architectural styles.
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She is not surprised by the extent of this week's coverage, which she defines as ‘a whole mishmash of nonsense peppered with elements of truth’.
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Your typical bad comedy is a mess, a sloppy mishmash of junk with maybe a few funny bits here and there.
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It's part of the curiosity of contemporary Japan that it presents you with some of the most jangled and mishmashed, unattractive urban landscapes in the world and yet, in many places, every little shop and cafe you enter will be immaculate and exquisite, whether it plays only Beatles records or Mozart.
Big in Japan: why Tokyo is top
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Around him graves crept up the hillside in a mishmash of stone headstones and rotting wooden crosses.
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The bridge was a line of old barges that had been crudely tied together, the deck a mishmash of welded patches of dented rusting metal.
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But a simpler, more robust fighting game would have been preferable to this mishmash of styles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sister Sadie" is a mishmash of thumby keyboards and missed guitar notes.
The Clog
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The melon festival will kick off here with a veritable mishmash of melon-based menu, complete with cocktails and mocktails.
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Parents, music lovers and the curious wander in and find a seat amongst a mishmash of antique chairs, an old couch and anything else that remotely resembles a place to rest.
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The place was quite swish, I suppose, but the decor was vile: a real mishmash of conflicting styles.
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MacPhee traces stencil graffiti from Marxist sloganeers in postwar Europe to Cold War revolutionaries to '70s conceptual artists, punks and finally a mishmash of skaters and other urban subculturists in the '80s and '90s.
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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.
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Even counting votes by a mishmash of different standards would produce a fairer and more accurate result than not counting them at all.
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It shall be a mishmash and a chitty chat of delightful goodness.
Mommy Maria welcomes you « Bored Mommy
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Frankly it's difficult to know where to start, given the mishmash of misunderstanding, gross exaggeration and things that are just plain wrong.
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My personal favourite sight, however, is the cathedral of St Sauveur, a bit of an architectural mishmash but with a wonderfully lived-in feel.
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When our stuff all came together (a lot of mine was taken out of storage) it became a mishmash, even more so than it was before.
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“Reality was giving its lesson,” wrote Ted Hughes in one of his Crow poems, “Its mishmash of scripture and physics,/With here, brains in hands, for example,/And there, legs in a treetop.”
Don’t Fear the Reaper
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This was a right old mishmash of high art and low culture, sport and theatre.
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Four disciplines were involved in this Austro-Scots sporting mishmash: tossing the caber, tug-o-war, beer-lifting and egg throwing.
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A swarm of brightly coloured flags, shirts, banners and placards competed for the eye's attention while a mishmash of languages filled the air.
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Indeed, history itself is often not taught, being dumped instead into the soft-study mishmash called social studies or transmuted into half-baked courses in civics.
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Only the future that Gall channeled in her album 1968 is more of a retro mishmash here.
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Organic and impermanent, the piece is at the mercy of its visitors: as they add to it, the work becomes a mishmash of influences, desires and visions, all of which can and will be amalgamated.
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Disjointed at best, it's often a mishmash of ideas and stories that don't always come together in a very meaningful way.
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The Republican party, like any party, is a mishmash of different groups with different objectives.
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The new housing development is a mishmash of different architectural styles.
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What should have been a fast flowing cat-and-mouse chase, with the highs and lows of your stomach on a bumpy sea ride, manoeuvres into two-and-a-half hours of drab mishmash.
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But it is not clear how people are to find the political identity on which states depend in the mishmash of rules and regulations by which they live.
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Neither, however, can it afford to just broadcast a mishmash of different types of music: a Beethoven piano sonata followed by a Sex Pistols track, say.
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The scene was a mishmash of beautiful country and old rusted buildings, stretches of lush green grass and strips of dried out riverbeds.
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The result has been a mishmash that is neither shocking nor revolting or entertaining.
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Revitalised and re-energised, the contest is now a mishmash of arresting questions, hot competitions, and more.