Example Sentences

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After two miles, we leave the wash to make our way up a jumbly ridge seemingly stitched together by the arthritic, extensive roots of dwarf juniper and pinyon trees.

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2022

Poetic and practical and laid out in an agreeably jumbly zine style, “Shelter” was a world tour of vernacular habitats, as well as a social history of hippie housing that proposed a new world order.

From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2020

It doesn’t help that Vidra speaks in jumbly tech jargon that sets many journalists’ teeth on edge.

From Slate • Dec. 5, 2014

A few years earlier, in the late 1950s, Lichtenstein was himself making brushy, rough and jumbly abstractions, but even then he never quite let go.

From The Guardian • Feb. 18, 2013

‘Never is it nasty! Frobscottle is sweet and jumbly!’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl