How to Use jumble in a Sentence

jumble

verb

• The Tour de France was coming through, so there’s that whole jumbled set of concepts there.
  — Vulture, 17 July 2023
• All the numbers were jumbled up, my brain just wasn't working.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 21 Feb. 2024
• There wasn't even a chance to watch half the field complete their rounds, thanks to the short days of fall and a rain delay that will jumble up the week even more.
  — Tim Dahlberg, Star Tribune, 12 Nov. 2020
• With only one game left in the regular season, the Big Ten standings are jumbled near the top, to say the least.
  — Evan Frank, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Mar. 2023
• When Damon started to answer, the screen and sound went jumbled.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
• With the middle of the East jumbled up, the Pacers have taken a step above their competition—for now.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024
• The time line was jumbled because the threats had come in waves: there were her siblings’ killings, then the fallout after Keldy testified against their killers in court.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• The Renaissance concert movie is joyful but jumbled—and less about the star than about her audience.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Dec. 2023
• Not to mention they are often jumbled on top of one another and, with their huge rooms, difficult to heat in the winter and cool in the summer.
  — Carlos Mota, ELLE Decor, 2 May 2023
• Funds belonging to many parties are pooled, jumbled up, and spat out into brand-new wallets, masking the origin of the coins held in each.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2024
• Zeller is not the first director to jumble his dramatis personae, and to maintain a cool composure in the process.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2021
• The reporters play with the language; as a result, the ESG data from companies worldwide are not uniform and are jumbled up.
  — Dharmarajan Sankara Subrahmanian, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• The Apple series follows much of Townsend’s account, but with the storytelling jumbled.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
• Everyone 65 or older was jumbled into the same age pot.
  — Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
• Lara sees the selves she’s shed throughout her life jumbled and reallocated among her daughters.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Drawer dividers keep nails, twine, screwdrivers, and other household items from rolling around and getting jumbled.
  — Sarah Halverson, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 May 2023
• Chronologically jumbled, the book begins and ends with some candid snaps of his latest dog, Duzi.
  — Darryl Levings, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• The Jewelry Box Nothing’s worse than showing up with your necklaces, earrings, and bracelets jumbled, knotted, or bent.
  — Samantha Leal, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2023
• Time sequences are jumbled, which robs the story of any logical progression and a sense of societal progress—or lack thereof.
  — Elaine Weiss, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2019
• So high-end footwear is strewn in front of the gangways, the ubiquitous Gucci loafers jumbled together with sneakers from Dior and Balenciaga that will set you back about $1,000 a pair.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2023
• But it was jumbled, given the other activity, and not easily discernible in the data.
  — Kasha Patel, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2023
• But even that plan has been jumbled by uncertainty in financial markets.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• The two party bases have become jumbled over recent cycles, largely falling along lines of education and wealth.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• This is also, of course, the logic of capitalism at its most perverse, a way of jumbling Emerson’s directive to build our own worlds with society’s directive to build our own wealth.
  — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
• During his junior high graduation ceremony, it was jumbled so badly that no one knew who had been called.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2023
• Because of the composition of the Stars penalty kill — with players from different lines — coach Rick Bowness often has to jumble his forward lines after killing penalties.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 1 Feb. 2021
• Frantic, terrified, her words jumbling together, Kathie tried to tell police everything all at once.
  — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
• Hancock was puzzled why Gutierrez Reed would jumble together so many different types of bullets.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 28 Apr. 2022
• More recently, Israel has jumbled GPS signals in its airspace with electronic warfare systems to confuse would-be attacks from drones or missiles.
  — Aaron Krolik, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Rome being Rome, these holy places are often jumbled together or layered — a church dedicated to the Virgin on top of pagan temples; a medieval church built over an ancient home that had a shrine to the Persian sun god Mithras in its basement.
  — David Laskin Martin Pauer, New York Times, 1 May 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024