How to Use admixture in a Sentence

admixture

noun

• The shadings, to be sure, are infinite, and so is the admixture.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
• That odd admixture of cultures is where snooker gets its old-school charm and humor.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
• By studying this effect, the age of the admixture was estimated to around 1681.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• Lives turn out through some admixture of genes, environment, luck and pluck.
  — Michael Shermer, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• One thing to observe though is that the frequency of A within Africa can not be explained by recent Eurasian admixture.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2013
• The research found that the Tarim Basin mummies showed no sign of admixture (a scientific term for having babies) with other groups that lived at the same time.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021
• The show was an admixture of past hits and that year’s debuts; the beer was pricey, liquor was unsmuggleable and the audience was over-indexed with toddler bjorns and upmarket strollers.
  — Mina Tavakoli, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• The admixture between European and Khoe-San was more common than church records suggest.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• The looming fact of racial admixture, especially with white people, may be said to form the grit in the pearl of Asian American consciousness today.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• On Disc 3, the Spike Orchestra fuses klezmer with surf rock in an oddly resonant admixture, run through the apparatus of a jazz big band.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• Even if there wasn't any recent admixture, ~1,000 generations of drift is not trivial.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2013
• Some, of night skies, embed white dots, for stars, in glazes of a dense black, with subliminal admixtures of, Celmins recently told me, ultramarine, raw umber, and ochre.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• As can be expected, the admixture This article is part of our premium archives.
  — Andrew Gawthorpe, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
• Once a week in Houser’s apartment, the duo would power through creative sessions fueled by an admixture of anchovy onion pizza, diet Cokes, and cigarettes.
  — Ade D. Adeniji, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
• The early admixture of the media (including social media) will insure the perfect sludginess.
  — Jena Friedman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• There was always an admixture of delight, which tempered any inclination to be sniffish about the Americana that Thiebaud painted.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• Wastewater, by its very nature, is an admixture of material from lots of different households.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
• African Americans have long range LD because the admixture was relatively recent.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2013
• Heavily influenced by jazz, Batiste’s music brings forth an admixture of concert-goers.
  — Allison Hazel, Essence, 9 June 2021
• The genetic admixture appeared in an individual found in Siberia, but not in the European Neanderthals also analyzed in the study.
  — Theodora Sutcliffe, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2016
• The simplest explanation is that A00 represents at case of genetic admixture between the dominant root lineage to our own species, as a collateral branch.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2013
• So, too is that admixture of high glamour and drawstring comfort that defines the actual relationship between Hollywood and fashion.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• Their daring admixture of styles, materials and scales reads like a mission statement for a style that neither idolizes modern technology nor romanticizes the past.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• With no artist statement forthcoming from our Stone Age ancestors, the show takes on a strange admixture of science and guesswork, paleoanthropology and wishful thinking.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• And something about that created the urban atmosphere, the impressionistic quality, the implication of street noise and urban admixture, and that all really worked for me.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• Not only were these populations not subject to admixture with the victorious Arabs, but there were not impacted by gene flow from diverse populations which migrated or were brought into the center of the Muslim world.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 4 Mar. 2013
• Again, this supports the idea of a single, small population seeding the continents, and—unlike in Europe or Asia—these people being cut off, with little admixture from new populations for thousands of years, at least until Columbus.
  — Adam Rutherford, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2017
• The impulse can act as a sort of muscle relaxant, a release valve that also, perhaps not incidentally, corresponds to periods of persistent discomfort or despair, or some kind of admixture of the two.
  — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
• Populations even without admixture or gene flow will have drifted in allele frequencies over so many generations.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
• Earth’s northern and southern lights—the result of a rendezvous between magnetic fields, energized particles from the Sun, and our planet’s atmospheric admixture—are wondrous spectacles.
  — Robin Andrews, Wired, 22 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024