jumble

Example Sentences

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Her remains may lie somewhere beneath the modern-day urban jumble of Mexico City.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

But it instantiates the way the story holds its jumble of optimism and disaster in a firm, two-handed grasp: death and chaos on one side, miracles and blessings on the other.

From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026

The author seems to trust that a coherent narrative will emerge, without the help of analytical threads, from a jumble of facts, tableaux, faces and innumerable quotes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 16, 2025

Roberts, Gorsuch, and Barrett’s questioning of Katyal was far friendlier than their grilling of Sauer, who spoke in a frothy jumble of run-on sentences that was often hard to understand.

From Slate • Nov. 5, 2025

Figure 3.6: A noise is a jumble of sound waves.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones