How to Use word salad in a Sentence

word salad

noun
  • A lot of what comes out of our mouths is word salad.
    — Louis Menand, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • People are tired of word salads that sound good but say nothing.
    — Lisa Bodell, Forbes.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • This is not the first time that Biden has thrown out Trumpian word salads.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2019
  • Each Roy child sputters a word salad of love and hurt and fury into the phone.
    — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Margaret, what the president said is just goofy word salad.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • That word salad is the sound of a mouth moving and words evaporating in a puff of dust.
    — Will Leitch, Daily Intelligencer, 30 May 2018
  • What was not offered were solutions, just a lot of word salad and crossed fingers.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 8 May 2026
  • Google Gemini can do word salad.
    — Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Yet over the next few weeks, a strange narrative emerged from this particular word salad.
    — Matt Alt, The New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2020
  • The child’s harried voice had devolved into the word salad of the psychotic.
    — The New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2019
  • For those looking for word salads, Harris served up few, if any, during her matchup with Pence.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 14 Aug. 2024
  • With all of that said, here are Harris’s top word salads of her 2024 campaign.
    — Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Richard Foreman fans will recognize some of the actors, as well as the crunchy texture of the word salad.
    — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 14 Jan. 2021
  • Never mind that this is the sort of word salad only a company insider could digest.
    — Jonathan Vanian, Fortune, 10 June 2022
  • A little personal attack here, a lot of lying there, plenty of word salad in the middle.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Both seem to be confused, jumbled word salads that don’t really give us any details as to just why this young man was shot and killed by police.
    — Monique Judge, The Root, 20 Mar. 2018
  • For Perssonatti, the disease is more about fatigue, brain fog, word salad, and clumsiness.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Early in the campaign, her answers to tough questions often devolved into word salad.
    — Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Even though Jiang wrapped his announcement in party-speak, the word salad didn’t mask the momentousness of the change.
    — John Pomfret, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Proponents of the settlement seek to change this by confusing the courts and all stakeholders with a new pay-for-play word salad.
    — Donna Lopiano, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The Jaguar rebrand is either a bold vision of the future or an impenetrable word salad.
    — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Harris is just one cringe-inducing interview or word salad away from sending Democrats back into panic mode.
    — Marc Thiessen, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
  • Sheila, spouting a bunch of authoritative-sounding word salad.
    — Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 8 May 2024
  • Scott issued a news release Wednesday afternoon, which was essentially a bowl of word salad.
    — John Canzano, oregonlive, 17 Sep. 2020
  • Doesn’t this word salad have some parallels with our new political education?
    — WSJ, 31 July 2022
  • There was also plenty of fluff, not really containing enough nutritional value to be called word salad.
    — W. James Antle Iii, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Ward helps her love with brain fog by filling in the gaps and fixing her word salads and Perssonatti helps Ward to get around as her caretaker, the couple said.
    — Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The duo settled this week ahead of their courtroom showdown and issued a needle-thread media statement, which was a meaningless, blameless word salad with hedge sauce.
    — James Hibberd, HollywoodReporter, 8 May 2026
  • This word salad offers something for everyone but is devoid of specificity and cannot serve as a basis for a coherent policy.
    — Andrew J. Bacevich, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In choosing to issue a word salad instead of an explanation, the District failed to abide by its statutory duty.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 9 Feb. 2022

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