Example Sentences

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“I am mixing my tennis and baseball metaphors, but so would Robin.”

From New York Times • Nov. 19, 2021

I am mixing time periods so as to make order.

From New York Times • May 31, 2013

I am mixing many colors, fourteen, fifteen perhaps, evolving a labyrinth of hues and shapes.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah, I am mixing up your beautiful sentences and spoiling them, am I not, darling?

From Candida by Shaw, Bernard

Yes, I agree about Forbes, and rather think he is one of the men Simon speaks of, and defies the Sorbonne to meet—unless I am mixing up the two divines of that name.

From Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron