Example Sentences

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There were salads, grain bowls, and hummus-based mélanges of varying quality—occasionally delightful but usually somewhere between pretty good and meh.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2020

His Combines—kitchen-sink mélanges of painting, sculpture, collage, and assemblage, including “Monogram”—absorbed that movement’s aesthetic breakthroughs, in dispersed composition and eloquent paint-handling, while subverting its frequently macho pathos.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2017

“Lavender Ghost,” with its jagged shape and surface, is a good example of the elegant, fragmentlike mélanges that result.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2013

But it is precisely the kind of challenge that appeals to the cellist Maya Beiser, whose solo performances in recent seasons have been multimedia mélanges of classical, electronic and world music.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011

Here lay an ovenful of the latest ethics—there a kettle of duodecimo mélanges.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various