A motley assortment of things.
Synonyms
Examples for "melange"
Examples for "melange"
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Your citizens are addicted and demanding melange, and they are growing restless.
2
But the internal pressure was explosive, and rich melange gas boiled out.
3
This is why we need to harvest so much melange from Arrakis.
4
They sampled from melange-laced hors d'oeuvres that servants carried on silver trays.
5
Anna closed the book and ate another one of the melange biscuits.
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At a guess, all her pins were lost hodgepodge about the countryside.
2
As the hodgepodge army of creatures approached, Maleficent nearly cried in relief.
3
He tried to distill concrete meaning from the hodgepodge of frantic impressions.
4
It has since scraped through by leasing space to a hodgepodge of traders.
5
Calling that glorified hodgepodge a collection. He shifted and recrossed his bony knees.
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But its mishmash of businesses is ripe for, say, a loyalty scheme.
2
You were a mishmash of many things; I couldn't recover you whole.
3
Now we let whole mishmash sit for a while, check for leaks.
4
Thomas looked down at the mishmash of tire prints in the gravel.
5
This whole outfit is just a mishmash of stuff from the past.
1
This I could discern by the studied hair-splitting farrago of his rejoinder.
2
Now I know, my reader, that the foregoing seems all a farrago.
3
He had poured out the wildest farrago without sense, coherence, or story.
4
The curious reader may see this farrago of nonsense among the Harleian MSS.
5
It was a farrago of evasion and befuddlement, accompanied by one riveting fact.
1
I am leaving everything to him, of course, except a few oddments.
2
Look out your oddments and let me see what I can do.
3
I meant to pick up a few oddments in the village.
4
Polton, give me a pearl shirt-button out of your oddments box.
5
Belgium's claim to Dutch Limburg and other territorial oddments must likewise be allowed.
1
A Labour source said: The government cobbled together a hotchpotch of a motion.
2
Swan House is in the medieval hotchpotch of Hastings old town.
3
Claiming that God gave him hotchpotch ''with His own hand.''
4
The programme had several points of interest, but was a bit of a hotchpotch.
5
First they ate "hotchpotch," soup with the meat swimming in capital broth.
1
She took out the ragbag and started work on an area rug.
2
And my clothes looked like they'd come out of a ragbag.
3
The cast's an amiable ragbag of Jarmusch's buddies and collaborators.
4
Why can't I climb out of my gray ragbag?
5
Phil's outfit might have come from the ragbag, too, it was so tattered and patched.
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They seemed to have been derived rather from a gallimaufry of familiar models.
2
Literally, a show of onions and pumpkins; metaphorically, a mess, gallimaufry.
3
The scum of that yeasty gallimaufry was on the outskirts.
4
I cherished my gallimaufry of rainbow-coloured labels almost as passionately as the miser his hoard of gold.
5
Every family had a few skeletons in their cupboards, but the Vanger family had an entire gallimaufry of them.
1
This week, we've got some odds and ends to post concerning fitness.
2
I'm used to scratching up odds and ends when I get hungry.
3
Upon him fall all the odds and ends, the most difficult things.
4
They had also a loft, in which to keep odds and ends.
5
We use them for sending up odds and ends to the garrisons.
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Why, a-God's name, was the old mass blotted out and this new mingle-mangle brought in, if it be all one?
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A livelier and more variegated omnium-gatherum was never assembled.
2
But I do know there was no need to exclude Ned and Polly from such an omnium-gatherum as this party of yours will be.
3
A rustic Olla podrida, an Omnium-gatherum was not to his taste.