I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
jumble sale
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sale
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I've had finds in jumble sales and rescued recherché items out of skips.
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Their clothes were hardly fit for a jumble sale .
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They've got a jumble sale under way already.
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I bought it at a church jumble sale .
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In jumble sales ten years ago you could hardly give it away.
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Lucker emerges from this domestic jumble sale debris sporting a four-pack.
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Mrs Thomlinson was to do with the church, soon on the flower rota, a willing hand at jumble sales .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any good clean jumble or bric-a-brac will be appreciated.
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Day to day, a jumble of hopes and fears pour upon us.
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Elsewhere, there are puppets, a jumble of toys, a vast doll collection and excellent temporary exhibitions.
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Here, their interplay is again easy and amusing, but the movie around them is a cliched jumble .
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It's worried that the resulting jumble of colours and designs would create an eyesore.
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The town, a jumble of Jekyll-and-Hyde contradictions, did not impress him.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Jewelry, belts and scarves were jumbled in the bottom drawer.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Shop houses and ancestral halls were jumbled side by side with whitewashed cottages and churches.
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The difficulty arises when facts and opinions are jumbled together in the same article or programme.
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The thoughts jumbling and whirling in her head, she came to the conclusion that the details didn't really matter.
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They jumble together shampoos, toys, chocolate, clothes, electronic goods and hair slides.