melange

Example Sentences

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Instead of the “let’s put on a show!’ approach of the previous five Christmas singles, 1968’s single was pieced together from recordings made by each Beatle on their own and handed over to friend Kenny Everett, a BBC DJ who then compiled them into this glorious melange.

From Salon

For Lepore, the Constitution is a blueprint of a cathedral, one that has morphed since its inception, rather like New York’s unfinished St. John the Divine with its mélange of architectural styles.

From Los Angeles Times

These wave-cut cliffs, a brittle mélange of ancient claystone and shale, have been eroding on average about a foot a year, exacerbated since the 1980s by a hardened shoreline, intensifying El Niños and, now, sea level rise.

From Los Angeles Times

Thanks to a melange of practical effects, matte paintings, miniatures, models and costly, groundbreaking special effects, Donner achieved a superhero movie that looks unlike anything made in the decades since.

From Salon

One software forensics expert who took up the challenge soon determined that the “evidence” was a mélange of random IP addresses, gibberish, files that had been modified long after the election, and so-called packet captures of vote heists that didn’t fit any known packet-capture format.

From Slate