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Definition of jumble:

  • (noun) a confused multitude of things
  • (noun) small flat ring-shaped cake or cookie
  • (noun) a theory or argument made up of miscellaneous or incongruous ideas
  • (verb) assemble without order or sense;

Sentence Examples:

And the town itself was roughly jumbled around one street.

Some incidents of that horrible half hour have gone into a sad jumble.

Her room is a jumble of disorder.

After that, everything seemed to be all jumbled up.

Everywhere there is a confused jumble of sounds.

Story, worming his way through the jumble, clapped his hands.

In this way, the empire became a jumble of languages and nationalities.

It was a rather large, square room, crowded up with a jumble of antiquities.

That all these elements of mischief may jumble into peace!

Who would wish to see you in the jumble of a city?

However, the rip-split-smash outside kind of jumbled three yarns into one.

A jumble of stone hid him, and then Ranger again showed.

It was straight up, brush and jumbled rock, and two hundred feet over my head.

Comstock sank into a chair and waited while the cashier read a jumble of figures to her.

Her knitting lay jumbled together in her lap.

He settled down to the pursuit with a jumble of thoughts in his brain.

His present political creed was a strange jumble of Democratic and Republican doctrines.

We cannot have up-and-down traffic jumbled together like this.

Her bird laws are a chaotic jumble of local exceptions and special privileges.

In such a strange fashion, I fly in a passion, and vow that the world is a jumble.

I realize that it is badly jumbled.

A jumble of retorts and other chemical apparatus about the floor.

The very origins of things are in doubt, so much is jumbled together.

Roll out and cut the jumbles into any shape desired.

All sorts of thoughts came and went in a strange jumble.

These jumbles are very delicate and will keep a long time.

Between this and that his mind became a jumble of the wildest conjectures.

The sudden rumbling, rattling, and pounding jumbled a fellow's wits.

What a jumble of repetitions it had been to her, then!

He saw a jumble of men and horses in front of the cabin.

It's queer what a jumbled memory one has.

Now will you please repeat that somewhat meaningless jumble of words, Betty dear?

Her dream of the past and the present reality were jumbling themselves together.

Near the top, but still below the summit, they entered a jumble of boulders and stopped.

She finished with a confused jumble of accusation and despair.

His thoughts were a chaotic jumble, and his driving on the way home matched them.

Beneath was a jumble of warmer bedding.

After that, my mind is just a jumble of impressions that don't fit into each other.

What a dumb, helpless jumble of humanity!

And, I flatter myself, this political jumble may hasten a peace, and bring you back soon.

Everything is a jumble of so many kinds of joys that I've been crazy all day.

Or else he had so many that they got jumbled up in his throat and would not come out.

That's the right figure, isn't it, for the best things at a jumble sale?

What they see, and consequently what they say, is a good deal of a jumble.

For the moment the words seemed a jumble to Hal.

Life was a jumble beyond his understanding, he concluded at last.

I am afraid this letter will seem rather jumbled.

Here are some jumbles, but we must keep the others' share for them.

It looks like a jumble sale already!

With a certain amount of dignity he walked past them into the house followed by Jumble.

Why jumble all these signs of summer together?

Such presentations are mere jumbles of statements.

It was a curious jumble of crowns and harps and long, white-feathered wings.

A jumble of pictures is not what you want, but a few good ones.

I've never heard such a jumble in my life.

Place each article in its proper place and not in a confused "jumble."

I demanded, trying to extract some meaning from the jumbled narrative.

They all jumbled together, like vivid picture impressions, full of color and feeling.

One does not see so much as feel in such a jumble.

Behind him was a confused jumble of peaks and ridges as far as the eye could reach.

The jumble of tools had obviously been salvaged from the kits on the tractors in the camp.

I thought it best just to wait, to hope for the sense of all this infernal jumble.

Out of the jumble of his thoughts that idea beset him like an obsession.

"Got something all jumbled up with static once but couldn't make it out."

The remainder was a jumble of meaningless sounds.

The jumbled story told by them puzzled the lieutenant more than anything else.

"What do they mean by sending me this jumble of stuff?"

"I can't see how all this jumble of crooked lines and letters can tell you anything."

"Make life coherent instead of a jumble."

And when it is submitted it is merely a jumble of figures.

This is going to be an odd jumble.

They were moving from a jumble of broken rocks a mile down the slope.

Then he spoke, a meaningless jumble of sounds.

He flashed the light into one corner where a tangled jumble of lines lay on the floor.

"You are just a jumble of different races."

To their husbands they spoke in a jumble of that tongue and English.

I do not jumble them; they are coordinates.

Memories jumbled, and I made no effort to pull them apart.

The voices that came down to them were jumbled, faint, indistinguishable.

There was a hollow somewhere in my mind into which all serious thoughts fell jumbled.

Strange thoughts made a jumble in his mind.

It's a sort of jumble for a modern residence, but I like it.

Perhaps a jumbled description may answer the purpose better than any other.

Her thoughts were a jumble; as yet she could only feel and suffer terribly.

Mostly his sentences were a jumble relative to trapping or sheep.

The rest happened so quickly it was all in a jumble.

He was speaking so rapidly that the words were jumbled together.

Now, isn't that a jumbled speech to tumble out of me?

"I see," Margaret said, but in her mind there was a horrible jumble.

"I can only hear a kind of jumble."

There was nothing left but a jumble of confused sounds and broken words.

When the waiters had moved away, "We are having a jumble sale," she announced.

"Send it to the jumble sale," I advised.

Oh, what a jumble people do make of the simple things of the Universe!

You would think me an absurd jumble of moods and tenses.

Then sounded another jumble of incoherent words.

The Princess hurriedly bundled up the scattered garments, jumbling them upon the bed.

The rest of the night was passed upon the stairs, with an immense jumble of men and women.

He jumbled around on his feet and took a couple of practice swings.

That frightful jumble people made for themselves!