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How to use jumble in a sentence

22 example sentences · verb, noun

Jumble means to mix or confuse. Example: “I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.”

Examples of jumble by meaning

verbTo meet or unite in a confused way.

  • I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.

nounA mixture of often unrelated things.

  • My thoughts were all in a jumble.
  • The buffing and coupling centre is 3ft 5½in above rail level and the beam carries not only buffers and drawgear but a jumble of train connections such as jumpers and pipes.1961 May, B. A. Haresnape, “Design on the railway: Part Three”, in Trains Illustrated, page 301
  • The newspaper letters, all capitals, made up a jumble of typefaces.2017, David Stout, A Child is Missing

nounItems for a rummage sale.

  • Adjust your jumble's price to something very reasonable and attractive for people to buy.2014, Ben Isacat, How to Do Animal Rights, page 110

nounA rummage sale.

  • Got it at a jumble.1982, Hunter Davies, Flossie Teacake's Fur Coat

More sentences with jumble

  • I jumbled her up against the wall.From the entry jumble up
  • Two jumbled chandeliers feature three-dimensional coconuts, or at least plasterlike casts of them.2009 July 17, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times. From the entry plasterlike
  • The various fruits were not organized row upon row as in agribiz but wildly jumbled.2003, Maxine Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, New York: Knopf, page 97. From the entry agribiz
  • Similar to tmesis is synchesis or the total jumbling of word order in an expression.1996, William Michael Purcell, Ars Poetriae, page 28. From the entry synchesis
  • Do they send off their best clothes to the local jumble sale?1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 35. From the entry jumble sale
  • His thoughts were an unwielding jumble in his mind.2001, Dorothy Garlock, Wild Sweet Wilderness. From the entry unwielding
  • And few places in Utah are as tiny or dry as Echo, a jumble of homes squeezed between a freight railroad and stunning red-rock cliffs.2021 July 20, Jack Healy, Sophie Kasakove, “A Drought So Dire That a Utah Town Pulled the Plug on Growth”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry dry
  • At the edge of the washway on our left it shot out several feet into the air before falling to the jumble of boulders below.2013, Edmund Elsner, Gravity My Enemy, page 383. From the entry washway
  • About three hours in, the land leveled off and the horizon gave way to a jumbled skyline, broken by the Fen River.2008 August 10, Aric Chen, “Bridging Generations on China’s High Plateau”, in The New York Times (Travel section), New York, N.Y.: The New…. From the entry Fen River
  • Such plundering and jumbling of the storehouse of yesterday’s empires, this melting pot or métissage of past power, was the true indicator of present might.2001, Salman Rushdie, Fury: A Novel, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 43. From the entry melting pot
  • In it, ghostly hands appear on top of the image of an aloe plant, with fingers and fronds jumbled together, all outstretched and reaching.1995 October 13, Charles Hagen, “Photography Review”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Aug 2011. From the entry double exposure
  • Once you saw the face of a god in those jumbled blacks and whites, it was everybody out of the pool—you could never unsee it.1977, Stephen King, The Shining. From the entry unsee
  • Apps like WhatsApp currently prevent any snoopers from reading your messages using end-to-end encryption, jumbling it up in such a way that only the recipient can de-jumble it.2017 July 14, Timothy Revell, “Laws of mathematics don’t apply here, says Australian PM”, in New Scientist. From the entry snooper
  • Rodeo struggled up through layers of sleep and saw a jumble of beer cans and one-shot liquor bottles, cold pizza, ripped stockings and underwear and a hash pipe.2014, C. B. McKenzie, Bad Country: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry one-shot
  • Out in the front yard, a jumble of iris japonica, Chinese epimedium and carex leaves covers one wall, a plant wall experiment begun five years ago.2007 May 3, Kristin Hohenadel, “All His Rooms Are Living Rooms”, in New York Times. From the entry epimedium
  • Up into that jumble of shacks with the trail snaking amidst came the ox-cart caravans of the priests, luggering along with goods for the mission at the Cathedral of St.1909 September 25, “Trail that grew. Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, is a wonderful thoroughfare”, in The Chronicle, volume II, number 40…. From the entry lugger

Meaning of jumble

  1. verb To mix or confuse.
  2. verb To meet or unite in a confused way.
  3. noun A mixture of often unrelated things.

Full definition of jumble

Questions about jumble in a sentence

How do you use jumble in a sentence?
Jumble is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I tried to study, but in my half-awake state, all of the concepts seemed to jumble together.”
What is a short sentence with jumble?
“Got it at a jumble.”
What does jumble mean?
Jumble means to mix or confuse.

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