How to Use commingle in a Sentence

commingle

verb
  • Fact and fiction commingle in the story.
  • He commingled his personal funds with money from the business.
  • The effect of this there-but-not-there blocking is to commingle present, past, and future.
    Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2018
  • After the doors closed, Bright grumbled that dogs that can’t commingle should stay home.
    The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 13 Feb. 2017
  • Some turned up in milk crates; others were commingled in a single body bag.
    Ananda Rose, Scientific American, 1 June 2015
  • When the rainwater is commingled with it, it is rendered kosher and ready.
    Kristin E. Holmes, Philly.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The areas where the colors mix and overlap imply that groups commingled.
    Oscar Schwartz, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2020
  • The air fills with the tantalizing smell of star anise and ginger, shrimp shells and pork ribs, commingling in a pressure cooker.
    Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2018
  • But as a woo-allergic atheist adult, the urge to willfully commingle my DNA with that of my tall leafy brethren had not crossed my mind.
    Michael Calore, Wired, 11 Feb. 2020
  • That pain commingles with a curious thrill when the women come face-to-face with two actors who have been cast as the older daughters.
    Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • If at that stage, deposits were mismanaged or commingled by Brex, customers could be out of luck.
    Matthew De Silva, Quartz, 3 Oct. 2019
  • When the stock is rich with marrow, it’s poured into a blender and returned to the pot to commingle with the butternut squash, also rendered velvet.
    Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The Web is a weird place where vastly different stories commingle all the time, often at the very same news sites, including this one.
    Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 3 Dec. 2018
  • The number of homes commingling with wilderness is expanding across the country.
    Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Bring me the cheddar biscuits or bring me two Buffalo nickels to commingle.
    Marcus Wicker, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2020
  • Ghosts commingle in the mail, and all the while actual correspondents remain painfully out of touch.
    Kamran Javadizadeh, The New Yorker, 26 May 2021
  • In 2023, fears about AI run amok commingled with memes about an allegedly deadly lemonade.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 29 Dec. 2023
  • The complaint also says Binance commingled customer funds and put users’ assets at risk.
    Dave Michaels, WSJ, 6 June 2023
  • These are the workhorses of the sky, transporting people and cargo around the planet for labor and leisure, the grinds of work and duty commingling with the fantasies of vacation and pleasure.
    Christopher Schaberg, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2018
  • The ideal way to eat this is to commingle the ingredients, even mashing up the foie, as counterintuitive as that seems.
    Phil Vettel, chicagotribune.com, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Also, if the assets are commingled with the beneficiary’s spouse, the assets could be lost in the event of a future divorce action.
    Wesley E. Wright, Houston Chronicle, 19 July 2019
  • His stunning voice commingled with the subtle whistle of the evening breeze blowing through the tall grass and lifted effortlessly into the darkness.
    S. Kirk Walsh, Longreads, 22 Jan. 2018
  • Complicating the investigation is the fact that the romaine can come from a variety of farms and be commingled at points along the supply chain.
    Jan Hoffman, New York Times, 7 May 2018
  • The present, commingled with this prettified past, can sometimes feel unsightly, crass even.
    Sarah M. Broom, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2019
  • Photographs of agrarian life commingle with screen grabs of the pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests.
    Danielle Avram, Dallas News, 29 June 2020
  • While that’s troubling, the Fed’s data includes both women who have never married, as well as those who divorced and may have commingled assets at some point.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Only men and women aspire to lifelong loyalty to friends whose bodies do not commingle with their own.
    Herbert Gold, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Investment firms that are legally registered, the SEC says, aren’t allowed to commingle customer funds this way.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • The pattern wasn’t simple reversion so much as commingling.
    Madeleine Schwartz Soneela Nankani Tanya Pérez Brian St. Pierre, New York Times, 14 May 2024
  • The board minimized the need for financial controls, the lawsuit read, accusing Webb and another director of moving and commingling funds and other banking changes without board approval.
    Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 22 Mar. 2024

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