How to Use jumble in a Sentence

jumble

1 of 2 verb
  • They were jumbled and loose in there, like teeth.
    — Literary Hub, 23 June 2025
  • Tune in next week to see how this all gets jumbled up again.
    — Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • But tests were often lost or results were jumbled.
    — Jamie Gumbrecht, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025
  • All the numbers were jumbled up, my brain just wasn't working.
    — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
  • When Damon started to answer, the screen and sound went jumbled.
    — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • The Tour de France was coming through, so there’s that whole jumbled set of concepts there.
    — Vulture, 17 July 2023
  • There wasn't even a chance to watch half the field complete their rounds, thanks to the short days of fall and a rain delay that will jumble up the week even more.
    — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
  • But even that plan has been jumbled by uncertainty in financial markets.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
  • What happens after that feels like a bit of an afterthought, or perhaps sections jumbled in the wrong order in haste.
    — Lauren Warnecke, Chicago Tribune, 18 Apr. 2026
  • But there are just a half-dozen or so teams to have jumbled their top three spots in the order as much as the Padres and/or used six players at any spot.
    — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Drawer dividers keep nails, twine, screwdrivers, and other household items from rolling around and getting jumbled.
    — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
  • The Renaissance concert movie is joyful but jumbled—and less about the star than about her audience.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2023
  • Zeller is not the first director to jumble his dramatis personae, and to maintain a cool composure in the process.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2021
  • Funds belonging to many parties are pooled, jumbled up, and spat out into brand-new wallets, masking the origin of the coins held in each.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Sullivan tried this against Toronto, jumbling the top-six group in the second period.
    — Peter Baugh, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • With only one game left in the regular season, the Big Ten standings are jumbled near the top, to say the least.
    — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Trump also was jumbling the timeline of jobs revisions last year, per Politifact.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Not to mention they are often jumbled on top of one another and, with their huge rooms, difficult to heat in the winter and cool in the summer.
    — Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 2 May 2023
  • With the middle of the East jumbled up, the Pacers have taken a step above their competition—for now.
    — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • During his junior high graduation ceremony, it was jumbled so badly that no one knew who had been called.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
  • Chronologically jumbled, the book begins and ends with some candid snaps of his latest dog, Duzi.
    — Darryl Levings, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
  • That all got jumbled when Vonn crashed 13 seconds into her downhill run and reportedly broke her leg.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Time sequences are jumbled, which robs the story of any logical progression and a sense of societal progress—or lack thereof.
    — Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The two party bases have become jumbled over recent cycles, largely falling along lines of education and wealth.
    — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The Apple series follows much of Townsend’s account, but with the storytelling jumbled.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • That's because the topping of this cake is all jumbled up, sorta resembling the mess left behind when a tornado rolls through an open plain in Texas.
    — Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 22 Dec. 2025
  • When a defense jumbles its communication, Brunson can pop to the arc and hit a catch-and-shoot 3-pointer or cut to the hoop for a layup.
    — Fred Katz, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • The experiences are jumbled in my mind, and the Stations become a story told over many single-frame images, just like any comic book.
    — Cressida Leyshon, New Yorker, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Frantic, terrified, her words jumbling together, Kathie tried to tell police everything all at once.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • But in babbling, all these calls are just sort of jumbled together without any readily identifiable purpose or context.
    — Karen Hopkin, Scientific American, 12 May 2023

jumble

2 of 2 noun
  • In just over two minutes, the song was done, and the gecs were on to more tracks, more genres, more dazzling jumbles.
    — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
  • Macaroons are chewy jumbles of coconut bound together with egg whites and sweetened condensed milk.
    — Lynda Balslev, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • Ray’s most chaotic photograms—jumbles that push out of the frame or look like time bombs ready to explode—find echoes in his films, projected on the back walls, a show in themselves.
    — Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Prompt engineers can be fiercely protective of these word jumbles, seeing them as the keys to unlock AI’s most valuable prizes.
    — Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
  • The Murujuga rocks look like random jumbles of blocks with a reddish brown patina slowly built up by mineralization.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 12 May 2023
  • Arches and natural bridges sweep like buttresses from jumbles of rock, giving this landscape a mystical, cathedral-like quality.
    — Madison Chapman, Outside, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The result also spotlights conference championships’ awkward fit in the current system, particularly given the fact that conference expansion has led to jumbles atop each league’s standings.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 7 Dec. 2025
  • Teams are often burdened with jumbles of different KPIs that say different things, especially as operations become more complex.
    — François Candelon, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2023

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