omnium gatherum
Example Sentences
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But maybe something about hustle, from its 1972 origins in the resilient youth of the battered South Bronx to the omnium-gatherum dance floors of 2023, deserves the title.
From Seattle Times
Volume VI, an index and omnium-gatherum, was prefaced by Mr. Stokes’s apology to subscribers for the 13-year duration of the project.
From New York Times
His multilayered sound collage is an omnium-gatherum that includes — among much else — running water, traffic, babies crying and a variety of Irish traditional music.
From New York Times
On the other hand, Adolphine's house, in spite of all her wishes and endeavours, had never been anything more than an omnium-gatherum, a rubbish heap.
From Project Gutenberg
I seldom partake of this meal," observed Philemon, "without thinking of the omnium-gatherum bowl, so exquisitely described by old Isaac Walton.
From Project Gutenberg
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