How to Use mishmash in a Sentence

mishmash

noun
  • That’s a wild mishmash of layers.
    — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2025
  • That left it with a mishmash of styles, some of them dated and clashing.
    — Rohan Preston, Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • The rest of the bill is a mishmash of tax credits for families.
    — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Which is to say, most of the mishmash can be attributed to something else.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2022
  • But the movie is kind of a mishmash of things, and the villain is generic and awful.
    — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 13 June 2023
  • Hopkins isn't the only actor ill served by this mishmash, just the best.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 21 June 2017
  • If there’s a lot of people at the house, then there’ll be a mishmash of ordering in.
    — Marguerite Joutz, New York Times, 21 June 2019
  • Brown's design looks at first like a mishmash of geometric shapes.
    — Frank Schultz, Star Tribune, 14 Sep. 2020
  • There are few places where such a mishmash of items makes sense besides in an art museum gift shop.
    — Micaela Marini Higgs, Vox, 7 Nov. 2018
  • The problem comes to the fore in those locales with the mishmash of lane discipline.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
  • The result was a mishmash of defense pairings.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • But a lack of federal regulation and a mishmash of state laws got in the way.
    — Corey Kilgannon, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The coaching staff is a mishmash of holdovers, coaches that did not have a market for their roles, and a few good ones that did.
    — Stephanie Stradley, Chron, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Like that Grinch and those posters, the concept and cuisine at Oakhaus can feel like a mishmash.
    — Kate Washington, sacbee, 29 Sep. 2017
  • This note is part of the musical score, a mishmash of genres and broken up by those piano notes.
    — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • Casey Hayward dropped a pick, got beat deep, beat short, covered, tackled, a mishmash.
    — Nick Canepa Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Order tandoori chicken as kebabs or, for a mishmash of cuisines, inside a trio of tacos.
    — Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The hearing, like the seven that preceded it, was, in all honesty, a bit of a mishmash.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 July 2022
  • The decor is made up of a mishmash of items, with shelves of bread and glass canisters of various grains stashed near the kitchen.
    — Suzanne Loudermilk, baltimoresun.com, 19 July 2017
  • The clash of dialects and styles of speech is jarring, and this mishmash of comedy and drama rarely rings true.
    — Chicago Reader, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Deep and experienced, the Bruins looked like a mishmash of used parts.
    — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • At first glance, the cabinets might appear to a mishmash, put together over the years as would have been done in an old house.
    — Richard A. Marini, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The furniture that fills the space is a mishmash of resale shop finds and contributions from friends.
    — Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2020
  • Our room, with two queen beds, was a cozy 320 square feet, with large, dark headboards and a mishmash of oddball art on the walls.
    — Dan Saltzstein, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2017
  • The all-star game itself was a mishmash of unguarded dunks and 3-pointers and no one remembers who won.
    — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Some 88% of people want to work in a hybrid mishmash of home and office-based work that is largely (co-)determined with their boss.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 11 May 2021
  • Probably will look like a full-on mishmash, having some cars toward the left, toward the right, on the line, in the middle, and so on.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Filling the gaps is a mishmash of biographies, fiction of all sorts, and tomes on music, sports, and politics.
    — Jack Barlow, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2025
  • The clunky set is a mishmash of video and hard pieces of scenery, filling just a portion of the stage at the Chicago Theatre.
    — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 20 June 2019
  • Inside, the main floor has been commandeered by a mishmash of cash-only Asian food stalls, which gives it the feel of a makeshift street market.
    — Hazlitt, 10 Dec. 2025

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