Example Sentences

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But in this landscape where we are weary of all these turduckened portmanteaus, the Double Down just doesn’t pack the same culinary gut punch that it once did.

From Washington Post • Mar. 7, 2023

“Deltacron,” or “deltamicron” if you like more syllables in your portmanteaus, might be appearing in the news, but so far it seems to be more bark than bite.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2022

The goofiest of these portmanteaus, and one of the more enduring, involved the carryall.

From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2021

In that first iteration, the anonymous writer explained “hatriot” in almost bemused terms as just one then recent example of portmanteaus like “Republocrat”.

From The Guardian • Aug. 7, 2019

Waiting while the old lady oversaw the removal of several ancient portmanteaus, the girl looked with indifferent curiosity at the inn.

From The Road to Paris by Stephens, Robert Neilson