jumble sale
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jumble sale
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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He first got access to an early mainframe computer via a teletype machine at the school, after the mothers held a jumble sale to raise the money.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2025
They’d found a piece of fabric in a jumble sale together.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2024
He unwittingly releases a drift of pigs from a house and later comes across an elegant jumble sale of a man who wields his walking stick like a “conductor’s baton.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
It can be fabulous, or it can be like a dreadful art jumble sale – “hung with the usual motley abandon”, as art critic Alastair Sooke noted last year.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 3, 2018
The Parsonage rapidly assumed the appearance of a clothing warehouse or permanent jumble sale, and Paddy’s first real laugh broke out one afternoon when she came over to help sew on name-tapes.
From Paddy-The-Next-Best-Thing by Page, Gertrude
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