How to Use word salad in a Sentence

word salad

noun

• This trademark word salad sums up the mood on the right.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2021
• This is not the first time that Biden has thrown out Trumpian word salads.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
• Each Roy child sputters a word salad of love and hurt and fury into the phone.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
• That word salad is the sound of a mouth moving and words evaporating in a puff of dust.
  — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
• Richard Foreman fans will recognize some of the actors, as well as the crunchy texture of the word salad.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2021
• The child’s harried voice had devolved into the word salad of the psychotic.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
• And the new dumbed-down gallery headings and word salads of the main wall texts definitely need work.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2019
• Even though Jiang wrapped his announcement in party-speak, the word salad didn’t mask the momentousness of the change.
  — John Pomfret, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2021
• Yet over the next few weeks, a strange narrative emerged from this particular word salad.
  — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2020
• But Drew Brees needs to prove there is substance to his mea culpa, that his wasn’t yet another word salad from someone who doesn’t get it and just wants all this to go away.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 4 June 2020
• Both seem to be confused, jumbled word salads that don’t really give us any details as to just why this young man was shot and killed by police.
  — Monique Judge, The Root, 20 Mar. 2018
• Never mind that this is the sort of word salad only a company insider could digest.
  — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 10 June 2022
• That tasty word salad came in conjunction with the Orioles declining to exercise a five-year option on their Camden Yards lease.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• In choosing to issue a word salad instead of an explanation, the District failed to abide by its statutory duty.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2022
• Scott issued a news release Wednesday afternoon, which was essentially a bowl of word salad.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2020
• Start with the word salad of Marxism, anarchism, and existentialism.
  — Matthew Walther, TheWeek, 4 June 2020
• The result, unfortunately for Higgins, is an utter word salad -- and plenty of mockery.
  — Chris Cillizza, CNN, 28 Feb. 2022
• So far, the right has expressed its complaints about ESG via a word salad whose components don’t share much of a relationship either to reality or one another.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 11 May 2023
• These rough, homemade frocks surely owed a debt to the surrealists at the next tables, echoing with needle and thread the collages, the experimental films, and the word salads those artists were gleefully experimenting with.
  — Lynn Yaeger, Vogue, 15 Mar. 2018
• The vast library of classical music recordings is still a jungle, where tracks are labeled with a word salad of generic titles, opus numbers, movement numbers, and often even the conductor or orchestra’s name.
  — Tim Greiving, Variety, 4 Apr. 2023
• Doesn’t this word salad have some parallels with our new political education?
  — WSJ, 31 July 2022
• Unfortunately, interviewers tend to shy away from asking questions that will provoke a dreaded word salad.
  — Jennifer Rubin, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Jan. 2018
• There's no entrance at all on the Elston side of the building, where its address is registered—just a metal wall with an assortment of small multicolored plastic letters with magnetic backs that invites passing debauchees to make word salad.
  — Mike Sula, Chicago Reader, 14 Mar. 2018
• With the assassination of Soleimani, disregard for truth and reality – and examples of Madame Bovary-esque word salad – remains as blatant as ever.
  — Susanna Lee, The Conversation, 10 Jan. 2020
• Part collage art and part word salad, some lines sound lifted from a relationship spat, others repurposed from a self-actualization seminar.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• When university statements are typically mad libs of recycled company lines and forgettable word salad, there was one line in USC’s announcement that stuck with Gottlieb.
  — Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2022
• Their purpose is pretty clear: take every side of an issue and amplify it by nonsense, word salad, insults, violent musings, denigrating the media and government, and outright lies, just to stir things up and pit us against one another.
  — Will Oremus, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2024
• By speaking so forcefully during the exchange, Harris managed to both put a human face on a long-running public policy debate and to evoke from Biden, an experienced debater, a word salad without a direct answer to her question.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2019
• This word salad presumably means that the project intends to promote the pre-colonial-era astronomical understanding of the indigenous populations of North America, and substitute this for modern knowledge in university curricula.
  — Andrew Follett, National Review, 20 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 21 Aug 2024