How to Use miscellany in a Sentence

miscellany

noun
  • Yet this long, obscure miscellany turned out to be a garland of little gems.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
  • My miscellany list has gotten long enough to warrant a trip to Walmart.
    — R29 Team, refinery29.com, 12 Jan. 2024
  • For the rest, a miscellany of pieces struggling to squeeze into dubious themes.
    — Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Seeing an avalanche of cookware and other kitchen miscellany can get anyone’s eye twitching.
    — Marlen Komar, Curbed, 25 July 2018
  • The fifth blog will host a miscellany of cool stuff, starting with the Guardian’s first science blog festival.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2019
  • Not a guide to gynocentric plot-building—more of a roaming miscellany of heroines across the ages.
    — James Parker, The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2021
  • This vest lacks some of the oversized storage of larger vests, but there are still zippered inner mesh pockets for miscellany.
    — Justin Park, Popular Mechanics, 25 May 2023
  • What better portal into the world of Pablo than through the miscellany preserved by his family?
    — Amy Verner, Vogue, 16 Apr. 2022
  • Despite its homage to happenstance, a consistent design runs through this miscellany.
    — Boyd Tonkin, WSJ, 11 June 2021
  • Every autumn these publications arrive with their eclectic mix of miscellany and lore.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Of course, if the challenge was just about clothes, women like me could have kept subsisting on the ill-fitting miscellany of Lane Bryant.
    — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 10 Feb. 2022
  • The book could be described as a collection of the icon’s mixtapes and B-sides, and as with such compilations, there are some gems in the miscellany.
    — Michael Anthony Neal, Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The Guardian gets cool content, bloggers get more exposure to a vast audience, and readers get a miscellany of great stories.
    — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2010
  • But how well does such a delightful miscellany translate into an everyday politics?
    — Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The vehicle easily fit a pillow, a couple of suitcases, and other miscellany needed for a seven-week stay with mom and dad.
    — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2018
  • Diamond’s aesthetic, rather, rests on a miscellany of references, some of which converge and most that contradict.
    — Allie Holloway; Styling By Carrie Goldberg, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Apr. 2021
  • The figure includes contributions to the economy through tourism and miscellany such as the effect of royal babies on fashion brands.
    — Tom Metcalf, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
  • The walls are covered with yesteryear gig flyers and band promo photos, random objects ranging tribal masks to skateboard decks -- all sorts of funky miscellany.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 1 Sep. 2023
  • But one topic among the Gazette’s noisy miscellanies is disturbing, if not unexpected, for a modern reader.
    — Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
  • At the same time, conversations and pending miscellanies are becoming more important.
    — Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Use sponges and miscellany to create something strikingly inedible (Thursday).
    — Chris Kaltenbach, baltimoresun.com, 16 July 2017
  • In fairness to him, the book is more than a collection of familiar Obamaisms and biographical miscellany—there are tick-tock accounts of the major events in his first term.
    — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The Picayune frog became enormously popular, with souvenir pins becoming a fashion around town and the frog gracing calendars and other miscellany.
    — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 2 June 2017
  • And, of course, there were White and Lawrence, knowledgeable, opinionated, delighting in miscellanies.
    — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
  • There's an elegant ease to a table set with a miscellany of vintage flatware, usually cobbled together from relatives' collections or antiques fairs.
    — Laura Regensdorf, ELLE Decor, 7 Aug. 2010
  • In the 1960s, the auto industry was looking at these dummies as potential replacements for their miscellany of living and dead beings that tested cars.
    — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2017
  • This story is everything else, a new pile of Nintendo, Sega, and even a bunch of Atari 2600 games, plus some other miscellany and oddities.
    — Chris Kohler, WIRED, 8 Aug. 2009
  • Initially known for their preppy eclecticism, Vampire Weekend expands into miscellany as never before.
    — Armond White, National Review, 10 Dec. 2019
  • If there is nothing so revelatory as his novels here, the miscellany is useful for underscoring the searching curiosity that underpins even the silliest of his comic reveries.
    — Elizabeth Nelson, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2023
  • In addition to casual women’s and men’s clothing — with an emphasis on the former — the store carries local skin-care products from Bohemian Reves and miscellany such as funky candles fashioned from beer bottles.
    — Paul Abercrombie, Washington Post, 12 Feb. 2020

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