What is "jumbled"

Usage examples of "jumbled".

They came to a patch of wall where the bands of rock swirled and jumbled like burl in a piece of walnut.

Max whirled, stumbling back, looking up into golden, snake-pupiled eyes, into teeth and twitching mouth parts, into claws and scales and an indescribable horror of a body that, like the jumbled parts of a nightmare, refused to come together into anything orderly or recognizable or sane.

Behan sat there in his chair, trying to sort out his jumbled impressions.

There were thoughts to be patterned and rich beds of memories, but most were jumbled, confused, almost incoherent.

Broken flagstones were jumbled with broken roof slates under a carpet of leaves.

Hurriedly, lurking behind jumbled rocks where possible, the party skirted the hazy cavern.

Another sported gadgets like lead water pipes all jumbled and crumbling.

And inside, the once orderly shelves and sections of the weapons stores were in jumbled ruined chaos.

He followed the boy, out from the cottonwoods, down the dry creekbed, toward the deadfall of jumbled branches.

From the eleventh floor of the Ansonia, neon signs look like smears of wet lipstick, and the jumbled noise that bounces up from Broadway has an underlying purr.

The rich and varied animal life of the cold plains constantly renewed itself, and the old bones scattered across the landscape were often swept away by vagrant streams into jumbled piles.

Some distance farther, he noticed a large pile of jumbled bones against a high bank where the river turned sharply.

Its sheer size made it seem closer than it was, but some gigantic chunks that had once tumbled down the steep jagged wall were strewn together in a jumbled heap perhaps a quarter-mile away.

Ayla went around the jumbled pile of ice blocks and clambered up a series of broken shards and slabs.

He sees his soldiers hunkered down, waiting out the storm with the patience of stone, and the dogs lying in jumbled heaps like fallen boulders.