How to Use hodgepodge in a Sentence

hodgepodge

noun

• Fans came in all types and ages, and with a hodgepodge of styles.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
• The north side of the street is a hodgepodge of buildings and owners.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2023
• The kitchen is a hodgepodge of spices, pots, knickknacks and fresh fruit.
  — Flora Tsapovsky, SFChronicle.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• The Lo-Fis, a hodgepodge of demos, leaks and throwaway tracks.
  — Cydney Lee, Billboard, 3 Aug. 2022
• Inevitably, there’s a hodgepodge of herbs that need to be used up.
  — Eleanore Park, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2020
• The battalion is a hodgepodge, with fighters from all over Ukraine and the world.
  — New York Times, 11 May 2022
• His staff was often a hodgepodge with hits and misses along the way.
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 5 Jan. 2020
• At the turn of the 20th century, the United States was a hodgepodge of state divorce laws.
  — April White, BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2022
• At the turn of the 20th century, the United States had a hodgepodge of state divorce laws.
  — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• For high school sports, states have a hodgepodge of policies.
  — NBC News, 28 Feb. 2022
• Gone are the murals, the hodgepodge of furniture and the river painted on the floor.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• Now, there’s a hodgepodge of 20 Stars players from which the Kraken can choose.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 18 July 2021
• Mars and Earth bathe in the same sunlight—the same hodgepodge of light at every wavelength.
  — Adam Rogers, Wired, 23 Feb. 2021
• Golfers back then were a hodgepodge of shapes, some with bellies that bulged over gaudy white belts.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2021
• The answer is a bit of a hodgepodge, much like a Thanksgiving potluck.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2019
• And in the next chapter, deBoer descends into a weird hodgepodge of ideas that don’t have much to do with the rest of the book.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
• Hard to say, as there have been multiple 25- and 50-pound bags, plus a hodgepodge of five-pounders, too.
  — Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2020
• The cast was a hodgepodge of celebrities (both Glee-adjacent and not) that just worked.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE.com, 18 Sep. 2020
• Across the country, there has been a hodgepodge of rules and restrictions for youth sports.
  — Rory Linnane, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Apr. 2021
• That leaves a hodgepodge of laws and safety standards across the country.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 11 Nov. 2021
• Wesley Walls: That team was kind of a hodgepodge of older free agents.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 13 Feb. 2024
• For now, each of the 38 states that permit horse racing regulate the sport with a hodgepodge of rules.
  — New York Times, 9 May 2021
• How much is exposure to a hodgepodge of recent art worth to you?
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 17 May 2021
• The result at many schools, health experts say, has been a hodgepodge of half-measures.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• At first glance, the top ten fashion style searches of 2019 seem like a complete hodgepodge.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 19 Dec. 2019
• But each year, since 1953, the Fairhope Arts & Crafts Festival brings a hodgepodge of the wacky and creative to its downtown streets.
  — al, 19 Mar. 2022
• The state of the U.S. economy is a hodgepodge of strong data and alarming signals.
  — Charley Grant, WSJ, 15 June 2022
• And in the corner is a bookshelf that holds a literary hodgepodge.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 17 Mar. 2021
• Despite its many amenities, the space was a bit of an architectural hodgepodge—medieval-ish stair railings; a mishmash of molding styles, and somehow dark, even with the large windows and high ceilings.
  — Hannah Martin, Architectural Digest, 27 Sep. 2024
• The pictures in his yearbook reflect this hodgepodge: A senior poses with a private plane and red sports car rented by his father, while another in camouflage military dress slings a hunting rifle over his shoulders.
  — Nico Lang, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024