How to Use miscellany in a Sentence

miscellany

noun

• For the rest, a miscellany of pieces struggling to squeeze into dubious themes.
  — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
• Of course, if the challenge was just about clothes, women like me could have kept subsisting on the ill-fitting miscellany of Lane Bryant.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
• The book could be described as a collection of the icon’s mixtapes and B-sides, and as with such compilations, there are some gems in the miscellany.
  — Michael Anthony Neal, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
• Not a guide to gynocentric plot-building—more of a roaming miscellany of heroines across the ages.
  — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
• This vest lacks some of the oversized storage of larger vests, but there are still zippered inner mesh pockets for miscellany.
  — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
• What better portal into the world of Pablo than through the miscellany preserved by his family?
  — Amy Verner, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2022
• The Guardian gets cool content, bloggers get more exposure to a vast audience, and readers get a miscellany of great stories.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2010
• This collection is a miscellany, but potent themes emerge.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2017
• This story is everything else, a new pile of Nintendo, Sega, and even a bunch of Atari 2600 games, plus some other miscellany and oddities.
  — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2009
• Seeing an avalanche of cookware and other kitchen miscellany can get anyone’s eye twitching.
  — Marlen Komar, Curbed, 25 July 2018
• Inside the boat: a pair of orange water skis, an empty fuel can, plywood and other miscellany.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 19 Oct. 2017
• In fairness to him, the book is more than a collection of familiar Obamaisms and biographical miscellany—there are tick-tock accounts of the major events in his first term.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
• The figure includes contributions to the economy through tourism and miscellany such as the effect of royal babies on fashion brands.
  — Tom Metcalf, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• The vehicle easily fit a pillow, a couple of suitcases, and other miscellany needed for a seven-week stay with mom and dad.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2018
• In the 1960s, the auto industry was looking at these dummies as potential replacements for their miscellany of living and dead beings that tested cars.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2017
• Despite its homage to happenstance, a consistent design runs through this miscellany.
  — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 June 2021
• Diamond’s aesthetic, rather, rests on a miscellany of references, some of which converge and most that contradict.
  — Allie Holloway; Styling By Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2021
• For generations of Americans, the brick-like Sears, Roebuck and Co. catalog was a fixture in just about every house — a miscellany of toys and clothes and furnishings and hardware that induced longing for this or that dream purchase.
  — Allen G. Breed, The Seattle Times, 16 Oct. 2018
• The Picayune frog became enormously popular, with souvenir pins becoming a fashion around town and the frog gracing calendars and other miscellany.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
• Carts stacked with bamboo steamer baskets are appealing because of their mystery; carts bearing fried food and miscellany flaunt their golden wares more obviously.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 27 Oct. 2017
• So, on the occasion of the ballpark’s 25th-anniversary weekend honoring the first team to play at Oriole Park, here are his 25 most memorable characters, magic moments and miscellany from the past quarter century.
  — Peter Schmuck, baltimoresun.com, 18 Aug. 2017
• Instacart users can add goods to their cart from Costco without a membership, permitting a whole new group of buyers to access its vast miscellany of groceries and everyday essentials, said spokeswoman Andrea Toch.
  — Hanna Krueger, NOLA.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• In addition to casual women’s and men’s clothing — with an emphasis on the former — the store carries local skin-care products from Bohemian Reves and miscellany such as funky candles fashioned from beer bottles.
  — Paul Abercrombie, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020
• Without mandates, shot uptake depends on the miscellany of motivation.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2022
• But how well does such a delightful miscellany translate into an everyday politics?
  — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
• Among other bits of cookie-tin cargo were two other massive diamonds cut from Cullinan, the Stewart sapphire that adorned Queen Victoria’s crown and other majestic miscellany.
  — Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 13 Jan. 2018
• There's an elegant ease to a table set with a miscellany of vintage flatware, usually cobbled together from relatives' collections or antiques fairs.
  — Laura Regensdorf, ELLE Decor, 7 Aug. 2010
• Use sponges and miscellany to create something strikingly inedible (Thursday).
  — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2017
• Ms. Hall’s aesthetic of extreme orderliness is largely a reaction to the magpie mind-set of her parents, whose Victorian house in San Francisco is piled high and haphazardly with miscellany dating back five decades.
  — Joanne Kaufman, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2017
• If there is nothing so revelatory as his novels here, the miscellany is useful for underscoring the searching curiosity that underpins even the silliest of his comic reveries.
  — Elizabeth Nelson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024