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Example sentences for "mixed"

Lexicographically close words:
mitts; mity; mium; mix; mixe; mixer; mixers; mixes; mixeth; mixing
  1. His dishonesty went too deep to be called superficial, yet, if we go deeper still in his rich and strangely mixed nature, we come upon stubborn foundations of conscience.

  2. He mixed his colours and was soon apparently engrossed in the pansies.

  3. Mackenzie mixed another tumbler of toddy, and began to expound to Ingram his views upon deer-forests and sheep-farms.

  4. D’ye think she’d drink a tumbler of grog if I mixed it?

  5. The other tossed off the glass of rum and water he had mixed for himself, and then wiped his mouth with the palm of his hand.

  6. He said it must have been written in Greek," and Belle laughed at the idea of the classics getting mixed up in any such small affair.

  7. Somehow he felt that it might have to do with the disappearance of Cora--she was always getting mixed up with girls, he reflected.

  8. There he mixed in French society and met politicians and writers, and it was at this time that he formed a friendship with M.

  9. I am not mixed up or responsible for their policy or their proceedings, which are, I think, faulty and feeble and hopelessly inadequate to what the times require.

  10. What got into a girl to get her mixed up with that kind of dirty business?

  11. She was almost angry with him, but more angry with herself; but her self-anger was mixed with shame.

  12. Sometimes they get so mixed in the lane," said Joan.

  13. Nature ground and mixed the colors for him all the while, for he was blind.

  14. The land is naturally sterile and hard of cultivation, most of it apparently being heavily mixed with ferruginous matter.

  15. Tecumseh, a mighty warrior of mixed Creek and Shawnee blood, was one who dreamt the dream of freeing his people.

  16. Why, sir, when they have grown to be seniors, you find these men mixed up with the nonsense of their youth; you see they are unthrashed.

  17. Women of mixed essences shading off the divine to the considerably lower were outside his vision of woman.

  18. She was happier and hoped for some little harshness and kindness mixed that she might carry away to travel with and think over.

  19. Across the yard came Mr. Linton, surrounded by a mixed assemblage of dogs.

  20. With what agility did he "set to partner" and "swing corner," with his eagle eye all the time scanning the sets to make sure no one mixed up the commands!

  21. I suppose the mater mixed things up, as usual," Cecil said, in a bored way.

  22. It's making my head ache and things get mixed again.

  23. I have mixed a good deal with the Rajah's people, and they are all very civil to me, but I never feel as if they are safe, and I often think that they are waiting for a chance to use the krises they keep so carefully covered over.

  24. It is only in the inferior levels of art that malice is the dominant note; and even there it is only effective because, mixed with it, there is an element of destructive hatred springing from some perversion of the sexual instinct.

  25. For out of the countenance of this latter looks forth everything that is hostile to life; and its expression has in it the obscene cunning, mixed with frozen despair, of a corpse which has become utterly dehumanized.

  26. This flight may perhaps warrant a suspicion that the man wished to go to Australia, and had been somehow or other fraudulently mixed up with the events of the night.

  27. Accordingly he kept back the missive, and, to make assurance doubly sure, mixed a soporific drug with his brother's drink when the latter came in from fishing.

  28. Miss Mellins's girl got them all mixed up.

  29. Miss Mellins's girl had mixed the buttons again and she set herself to sort them.

  30. With what mixed sensations they must enter those palaces!

  31. This is the mixed effect of the recluse life she led, and of the care taken in France to keep the people ignorant of certain events.

  32. It is then pushed through the pylorus, or right orifice of the stomach into the duodenum, where it becomes mixed with the bile from the gall bladder and liver, and the pancreatic juice from the pancreas.

  33. When the alimentary substances have continued a sufficient time in the stomach, they are pushed into the intestines, where they become mixed with the bile and pancreatic juice, as was before observed.

  34. The saliva is a saponaceous liquor, destitute of taste or smell, which is squeezed out from these glands, and mixed with the food during mastication.

  35. We have another instance likewise in odours or smells; if two or more perfumes be mixed together, a compound odour will be perceived, different from any of them.

  36. Tin, which in itself has very little more sound than lead, highly improves the tone of copper when mixed with it.

  37. Thus it is known that the same quantity of spirit, made into punch, will not produce either the same ebriety, or the same subsequent exhaustion, as when simply mixed with water.

  38. He is finely educated, I hear, at the colleges and law schools, and possesses a remarkable power over the agricultural and mixed races of that small state, whom he thoroughly understands by sympathy and acquaintance.

  39. I was thinking of other things, and forgot, as any one might easily understand, that I was steering, and the consequence was that we had got mixed up a good deal with the tow- path.

  40. After that, we mixed ourselves some toddy, and sat round and talked.

  41. Harris said that he thought it would be all right, mixed up with the other things, and that every little helped; but George stood up for precedent.

  42. Usually the races are mixed in there; but the white coach is all white.

  43. Therefore, if you desire to make Australia a home, don't be mixed up in the present struggle, if possible.

  44. Besides, the cattle needed looking after, and collecting, or they would be likely to stray back towards Melbourne and get mixed with the wild animals which belonged to some of the numerous stockmen on the road.

  45. I followed the bushrangers when they fled, and mixed with them and talked with them, without being discovered.

  46. I had just mixed a strong glass of punch, and was about to raise it to my lips, for the purpose of looking cheerful when Fred returned, when I heard his voice.

  47. I am sorry for that, 'cos it is good to keep the stomach in order, when mixed with a little river water.

  48. With eager hands we untied the strings, and exposed to our longing eyes the glittering scales of gold dust, mixed with gold coins, sovereigns, and American ten and twenty dollar pieces.

  49. I mixed twelve grains of prussic acid with a pint of porter, but could not smell it.

  50. With a view to ascertain the character of aconite when mixed with Battley’s solution, I mixed known quantities of tincture of aconite with Battley’s solution, treating the mixtures in the same way.

  51. A child of ten was supposed to have eaten a quantity of meal mixed with arsenic for rats.

  52. Pritchard may have had a little salt-cellar by his side, professedly for his own use, containing tartar emetic, either alone or mixed with salt.

  53. I am inclined to believe that the symptoms in her case were mixed to some extent, like the symptoms of narcotic poison, and to some extent like the symptoms of antimony.

  54. The prisoner was convicted, and confessed before his execution that the powdered root of Monkshood (aconite) had been mixed with pepper and sprinkled over the greens.

  55. These chloroform-ether mixtures were mixed and evaporated, and finally dried in vacuo over oil of vitriol.

  56. Eleven of the small ones were of pure quinine, but three of them were more or less mixed with aconitia.

  57. In the boy’s box, on the ground floor, five pills mixed with capsules were found.

  58. The latter can be recovered from the precipitate by treating it with a solution of zinc chloride mixed with caustic soda.

  59. He filled the basin with the usual quantity of water, and mixed the arsenic with it.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mixed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    mixed blood; mixed diet; mixed farming; mixed marriages; mixed multitude; mixed number; mixed race; mixed schools; mixed spice; mixed together; mixed with