How to Use mash-up in a Sentence

mash-up

noun
  • The East-meets-West mash-up was the most groundbreaking look of the night.
    Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2023
  • This isn’t the only mash-up/medley in the setlist so far, either.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 May 2023
  • Some equate it to a mash-up of a kiwi, a pear, and a watermelon.
    Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2023
  • This sandwich — an over-the-top mash-up of French toast and grilled ham and cheese — has its detractors.
    Ann Maloney, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2023
  • Special for The Republic This might be the best culinary mash-up to date.
    Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023
  • Celebrate the Fourth of July with a simple mash-up of two crowd pleasers.
    Jan Miller, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 May 2024
  • That work is more of a Chekhovian mash-up, drawing freely from the Russian playwright’s body of work.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Thus the rainbow cookie/icebox cake cake mash-up was born.
    Caron Golden, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 July 2023
  • The polka medley features a mash-up of pop hits performed by Yankovic.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Frequently Asked Questions Think of the sport as a mash-up of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong.
    Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But a huge plot twist in the final moments of episode 6 expands the show into a daring mash-up of genres.
    Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 3 May 2024
  • My character Yelena is this mash-up of my mom’s mom, Kay; my own mom; and me.
    Carole Burns, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
  • Those venues are long shuttered, and the street — with its current mash-up of smoke shops, dive bars, and cheesesteak joints — hasn’t been a creative hub for decades.
    Regan Stephens, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2023
  • All of this started with an April Fool’s joke, when the two companies proposed the corporate mash-up.
    Chris Morris, Fortune, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Before the performance began, Swift and Carpenter shared a quick story about how the mash-up came about — or, at least, the first half of it.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
  • The hourlong program is a mash-up of two February concerts.
    Thor Christensen, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2023
  • Within the collection, there was a staple look that felt like a mash-up of sorts: a pair of black and yellow leather pants worn with a striped tee and a plaid jacket.
    Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Drain, and toss the rest of ingredients together to create the right mash-up of flavors and textures!
    Bhg Test Kitchen, Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Aug. 2023
  • The venue is a mash-up of bodega, bar, and restaurant with a Korean-Mexican fusion menu.
    Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The galaxy mash-up spans only about 5 percent of the Milky Way’s diameter, but both contain roughly the same amount of gas.
    Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2024
  • The videos had been spliced into a mash-up and served to me on Instagram as a looping carousel of orange squares thwacking babies silly.
    Amanda Hess, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Blood of Zeus is an epic war between gods, mortals and demons in this dynamic mash-up of anime and mythology.
    Katie Campione, Deadline, 27 July 2024
  • Some of them adorn their websites with a mash-up of Confederate nostalgia and icons of Russian saints.
    Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
  • But infidelity is not House of Usher’s problem; the problem is what the success of mash-up projects like these portends.
    Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The log-cabin council fire is a pyro mash-up of a slow-burning, green-wood log-cabin build on the outside, and a tepee fire that throws out tall flames within. 1.
    T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • The result is a mash-up effect in which each of the upper’s pieces look like they’ve been wrenched from different sneakers and cobbled back together.
    Riley Jones For Footwear News, Robb Report, 21 Oct. 2024
  • The post began making news in Canada soon after, with a radio DJ doing a mash-up that boosted the notion that the songs share a similar git-up.
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 28 Feb. 2024
  • But whereas that vehicle was a pickup outfitted with a bunch of off-roading gear, the Raptor T1+ is more of a mash-up of a monster truck and a fastback coupé.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 15 July 2024
  • The project is a sci-fi and social issues mash-up about a call center operative who gets paid in dream-time and uses it to relive her glory days as a pop star.
    Patrick Frater, Variety, 3 July 2023
  • Now in its eighth weekend of release, the Marvel Studios multiverse mash-up is winding down its run, but the marketplace isn’t showing much other signs of life.
    J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 14 Sep. 2024

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