MEDLEY in a Sentence

Learn MEDLEY from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for MEDLEY, such as:

1. He was transfixed by this terrific medley of all noises.
2. As for the walls, they were hung with a medley of pictures.
3. The mere sight of that medley of wet nakedness chilled him to the bone.

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 Meanings and Examples of MEDLEY
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medley
 n.  mixture; musical composition consisting of a series of pieces
Classic Sentence:
1  The resulting medley of sound distracted no one, save possibly alone the babies, of which there were present a number equal to the total possessed by all the guests invited.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
2  He was transfixed by this terrific medley of all noises.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
3  There was such a medley of things going on, what with the beldame's deafness, the bawling of the youths, and the confusion of the plot that she could make nothing of it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
4  The mere sight of that medley of wet nakedness chilled him to the bone.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
5  As for the walls, they were hung with a medley of pictures.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  The American, who won his fourth gold medal here in Athens Thursday in the 200-meter individual medley, is the favored swimmer tonight in the 100-meter butterfly.
2  Co-hosts Kristin Chenoweth and Alan Cumming infused the show with a low-key medley of jokes and songs that displayed their playful, daffy chemistry.