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Usage examples of jumble.

The man was too awkward aiming, but he went instantly graceful when Rambo shot him, smoothly clutching his right shoulder, spinning easily, toppling perfectly over the bicycle next to the tool shed, and then he was awkward again as the bicycle gave way under him and the two jumbled to the ground in a tinny jangle of chain and spokes.

Stonehampton, among the low wharves and wooden warehouses, which stood along the flat banks, jumbled up with streets and ferries, queer one-storied shops and verandahed dwelling-houses, closed in with yellow alamandas, passion fruit, and orange begonias.

He had a tendency to jumble one topic in with another as things occurred to him, and a good deal of it was profane, but Alec managed to sift out enough to set his mind at rest by the time they drew alongside the sleek hull of the Grampus.

The violin was in the grape arbour, singing a perfect jumble of everything, poured out in an exultant tumult.

Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.

An airline pilot, his plane loaded with a jumbled heap of gasping and spasmed humanity, makes pass after pass at the very tip of the Empire State Bulding until at last the television tower rakes off one wing and the plane goes twisting down to the chasm of the street.

Elora breathed, shutting her eyes tight, clutching Caille to her side with one hand, the other reaching out toward the jumble of boards that had been their home.

His memories of Elroy Doil and all that had occurred were like a file folder of jumbled notes and pages.

The details were jumbled up, but Gaye had apparently been roaming on her own for ten years or more.

On the way in to Gilver, it had shown a hideously jumbled swarm of ships and missiles, their tracks and signals jammed to provide them the greatest possible protection.

Lyman said gently, watching the screen on which four animated jaggy boxes were jumbling and dancing as they reported on the throughput between the routers and the laptop.

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.