jumble sale
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of jumble sale
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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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
But in the church’s aisles, a used-book jumble sale and an exhibition by local painters take up far more room than the vaunted chapels.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 6, 2015
But you won't find these in a school jumble sale any time soon.
From BBC ● Jan. 5, 2015
Buff's suit to be sponged with ammonia and mended, old clothes to be looked out for a jumble sale, a pile of letters to reply to.
From The Setons by O. Douglas
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