JUMBLE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for JUMBLE, such as:

1. Inside she was a jumble of emotions.
2. The shoreline was made up of a jumble of huge boulders.
3. He jumbled up everything in the drawer to find his key.
4. Toys, books, shoes and clothes were jumbled on the floor.
5. It was a jumble, but also it was a sort of little sanctuary.

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 Meanings and Examples of JUMBLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
jumble
 n.  assemble without order or sense; confused multitude of things; chaos; mess; mixture
Classic Sentence:
1  Here there was no flooring and the assorted jumble of stock was piled helter-skelter on the hard-packed earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
2  The artillery booming, forward, rearward, and on the flanks made jumble of ideas of direction.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
3  Into the unspeakable jumble in the roadway rode a squadron of cavalry.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
4  It's very funny when well done, and makes a perfect jumble of tragical comical stuff to laugh over.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWELVE
5  There was that jumble in my thoughts and recollections, that I had lost the clear arrangement of time and distance.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
6  It was a jumble, but also it was a sort of little sanctuary.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
7  And having jumbled her father and the umbrella well together in her reply, Jo slipped out of the room to give Meg a chance to make her speech and air her dignity.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
8  If I've got some of his wise ideas jumbled up with my romance, so much the better for me.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
9  Lakes, mountains, and rivers shall not be jumbled together in our imaginations; nor when we attempt to describe any particular scene, will we begin quarreling about its relative situation.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
10  Time and events were telescoped, jumbled together like a nightmare that had no reality or reason.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  She went crimson at the memory and, pulling the bed covers up about her neck, lay bathed in sunlight, trying to sort out the jumbled impressions in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
Example Sentence:
1  The shoreline was made up of a jumble of huge boulders.
2  Inside she was a jumble of emotions.
3  The finale was one big jumble of nonsense, just like the entire series was.
4  Toys, books, shoes and clothes were jumbled on the floor.
5  He jumbled up everything in the drawer to find his key.