How to Use mishmash in a Sentence

mishmash

noun

• On the lengthy LP (21 tracks in all), there’s a mishmash of values, ideas and life mantras.
  — J'na Jefferson, Billboard, 27 May 2017
• But the movie is kind of a mishmash of things, and the villain is generic and awful.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 June 2023
• The rest of the bill is a mishmash of tax credits for families.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
• This is life’s mishmash of greens and herbs: bitter, tangy and sweet all at once.
  — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2023
• That left it with a mishmash of styles, some of them dated and clashing.
  — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• Like that Grinch and those posters, the concept and cuisine at Oakhaus can feel like a mishmash.
  — Kate Washington, sacbee, 29 Sep. 2017
• The problem comes to the fore in those locales with the mishmash of lane discipline.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• If there’s a lot of people at the house, then there’ll be a mishmash of ordering in.
  — Marguerite Joutz, New York Times, 21 June 2019
• Which is to say, most of the mishmash can be attributed to something else.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
• The clunky set is a mishmash of video and hard pieces of scenery, filling just a portion of the stage at the Chicago Theatre.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2019
• On the whole, the home is a quietly evocative mishmash.
  — Camille Okhio, ELLE Decor, 29 Mar. 2023
• Our room, with two queen beds, was a cozy 320 square feet, with large, dark headboards and a mishmash of oddball art on the walls.
  — Dan Saltzstein, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2017
• Hopkins isn't the only actor ill served by this mishmash, just the best.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 June 2017
• Instead, the term refers to a mishmash of confused concepts.
  — Nathan Lewis, Forbes, 24 June 2021
• The decor is made up of a mishmash of items, with shelves of bread and glass canisters of various grains stashed near the kitchen.
  — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2017
• The coaching staff is a mishmash of holdovers, coaches that did not have a market for their roles, and a few good ones that did.
  — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 5 Feb. 2021
• Deltacron is the nickname of a new version of the coronavirus that’s a mishmash of the Delta and Omicron variants.
  — Karen Kaplan Science and Medicine Editor, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
• The hearing, like the seven that preceded it, was, in all honesty, a bit of a mishmash.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
• Among the movie’s charms are Diehl’s cheerful and contact-lensed face, and the pleasant mishmash of French, German, and English that the cast speak.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2018
• But a lack of federal regulation and a mishmash of state laws got in the way.
  — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
• The clash of dialects and styles of speech is jarring, and this mishmash of comedy and drama rarely rings true.
  — Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
• Some 88% of people want to work in a hybrid mishmash of home and office-based work that is largely (co-)determined with their boss.
  — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 11 May 2021
• The Spanish Fort is a mishmash of all kinds of New Orleans history.
  — NOLA.com, 19 July 2017
• Intrigue centers around the murky origins of the 119-ton monument and the mishmash of themes inscribed on it.
  — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 17 May 2022
• There are few places where such a mishmash of items makes sense besides in an art museum gift shop.
  — Micaela Marini Higgs, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
• Probably will look like a full-on mishmash, having some cars toward the left, toward the right, on the line, in the middle, and so on.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2021
• Deep and experienced, the Bruins looked like a mishmash of used parts.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
• DiCaprio’s pal Tobey Maguire — dressed in a mishmash of a black suit, gold chain and sneakers with brown soles — kept pacing around the tent.
  — Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 26 May 2023
• The series is a bit of a mishmash and at times, a very unfocused story that would probably have been better off with fewer episodes, or just a movie with all the excess fluff trimmed out.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2024
• Despite its many amenities, the space was a bit of an architectural hodgepodge—medieval-ish stair railings; a mishmash of molding styles, and somehow dark, even with the large windows and high ceilings.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Nov 2024