How to Use farrago in a Sentence

farrago

noun
  • Indeed, the farrago signalled his strength as well as his weakness.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • This is a rich farrago of truth, misdirection, and hand-waving.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 6 July 2017
  • This farrago of nonsense was ridiculed by critics, yet was a considerable best seller, his last.
    — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
  • After this farrago, what can Montalbano do but agree to foot the bill for the letter/litter, too?
    — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Kara’s opening monologue gives a sense of the show’s tone, a farrago of hand-wringing and rustic absurdity, with a Freudian undercurrent.
    — Dan Piepenbring, The New Yorker, 1 May 2017
  • In that now-infamous press conference, Biden unloosed a farrago of wishful thinking, happy talk, half-truths, and blatant deceptions.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 20 Aug. 2021
  • Spicer’s overture statement was a farrago of false assertions, misleading stats, and embattled attitude, putting those Beltway press-corps punks on notice that there was a new sheriff in town.
    — James Wolcott, The Hive, 4 July 2017
  • Spicer’s overture statement was a farrago of false assertions, misleading stats, and embattled attitude, putting those Beltway press-corps punks on notice that there was a new sheriff in town.
    — Vanityfair.com, VanityFair.com, 28 June 2017
  • As Voltaire/Pangloss, Kevin Burdette made a brilliantly cynical cicerone through this farrago.
    — Heidi Waleson, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2018
  • Her childhood had been quietly calamitous, her father's career a farrago of alcoholism, shame, and secret homosexuality.
    — Michael Chabon, GQ, 27 Apr. 2018
  • The comparison doesn’t exactly flatter Pearce’s movie, an uneven farrago of science-fiction thriller and child abduction drama just about held together by Ahmed’s forceful and committed performance as a man teetering on the brink.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2021

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