How to Use mumbo jumbo in a Sentence

mumbo jumbo

noun

• We were confused by all the legal mumbo jumbo.
• His explanation was just a lot of mumbo jumbo.
• My son Gabe and his friend Jake are already tight, so that makes little sense — kind of like a lot of the mumbo jumbo espoused by the chain.
  — Anna Caplan, star-telegram, 1 Mar. 2018
• There’s no mumbo jumbo about the Force, no lightsabers, no First Order, and scarcely a mention of the Empire.
  — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic, 15 May 2018
• None of the steps along the way require readers to buy into sci-fi mumbo jumbo or to suspend disbelief.
  — Kristen Bellstrom, Fortune, 6 July 2018
• The language the unemployed confront on the forms and notices often is in legal mumbo jumbo.
  — Rich Exner, cleveland, 18 May 2021
• Orr, like a coal plant, blows a lot of smoke around mumbo jumbo like depreciated assets.
  — Star Tribune, 4 July 2021
• Besides, at the 15 minute mark, Barbara gives us permission to stop caring about all the reversing time mumbo jumbo.
  — Shannon Carlin, refinery29.com, 16 Dec. 2020
• But even as Jeff Bezos was gushing about the amazeball-ness of his flirtation with space, the fact is that ultimately, all of that mumbo jumbo is secondary to him.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 21 July 2021
• No sugar cookies, no chocolate-chip mumbo jumbo, or your Nana’s special recipe.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• The marketing around the film heavily emphasized its jukebox-hits soundtrack, and it was packed with more weird space mumbo jumbo than every Star Wars film before it.
  — John Gilpatrick, Popular Mechanics, 26 Dec. 2019
• First there was this mumbo jumbo about official windows of time where teams had to make appointments to meet with free agents, even though most teams had already tampered and contacted prospective free agents and agreed to deals.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2019
• Figuring out whether to buy a new iPhone always requires sorting through marketing mumbo jumbo.
  — Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Denver Post, 15 Sep. 2019
• What fascinated was her way of demystifying things and her cool patience in cutting through mumbo jumbo.
  — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2019
• As a result, even when Spanish vintners try to follow American-style labeling rules by naming their wines for grapes instead of towns or regions, those Spanish grape names still read like mumbo jumbo.
  — Gar Joseph & Marnie Old, Philly.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• There’s validity, too, to the argument that Sunday Service is nothing more than , a lot of mumbo jumbo signifying nothing.
  — Erik Maza, Town & Country, 4 Mar. 2020
• First there was denial: maybe Trade Federation mumbo jumbo and borderline racist alien caricatures were some modern commentary on… OK, no.
  — Matt Patches, Esquire, 4 May 2015
• Expect more multiplier mumbo jumbo as the Biden administration begins its tax-and-spend fiesta.
  — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 6 Dec. 2020
• No need for fancy policy talk or corporate regulatory mumbo jumbo.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2023
• John, however, a mechanical engineer working toward his doctorate in environmental engineering was just the guy to sort through the mechanical mumbo jumbo.
  — Marni Jameson, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 July 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024