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Example sentences for "curious mixture"

  • The current experiments in the direction of corporate "regulation" are prompted by a curious mixture of divergent motives.

  • His mouth was a curious mixture of softness and cruelty, and his hands were broad, but not ungraceful.

  • The visions of Monet were a curious mixture of shadow and reality.

  • Mrs. Hilmer, raising the question, answered it tentatively by a statement that held a curious mixture of hope and fear.

  • Mr. Gladstone is a curious mixture of splendour and carelessness.

  • Mr. May looked on with a curious mixture of feelings.

  • Our landlord was a curious mixture of three nations: French, Spanish and Italian.

  • Having arrived at this conviction with a curious mixture of shrewdness and sentiment, Grace had gone on to be practical.

  • So he passed, with a curious mixture of swing and slouch, along the dusty roads towards the railway station, which lay on the outskirts of the town, about a quarter of a mile from the bridge.

  • This simple explanation, in which may be detected a note of patriotic pride, is almost universally accepted in Russia; but it contains, like most popular conceptions of the distant past, a curious mixture of fact and fiction.

  • Altogether a curious mixture of the prophet, the social reformer, and the cunning impostor!


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "curious mixture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    circular letter; curious account; curious anecdote; curious case; curious coincidence; curious custom; curious enough; curious expression; curious look; curious smile; curious specimen; curious story; curious thing; everything else; heavy fire; international markets; more scientific; political equality; senor doctor; stand them; this country; this idea; wheeled round; where their; wings and tail black; year term