hodge-podge
Example Sentences
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It's why my hodge-podge accent – neither entirely Southern nor Northern – made me feel self-conscious to speak, compounding my anxieties about exposing my already shaky grasp on the language.
From Salon ● May 12, 2024
However sheepish this hodge-podge crew seemed before, everyone spends the next hour quietly panting as their limbs flail in uncoordinated dance to music only they can hear.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
The Chiefs were so ransacked by injuries a year ago, particularly when the playoffs rolled around, and they were forced to start a hodge-podge of offensive linemen.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 29, 2021
Some are retired teachers, while others are younger, college students looking for something different - "a hodge-podge of different people", he says.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2021
These precious conceits are set forth in a ridiculous hodge-podge of statements.
From The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum
