Sentence examples for a messy jumble from inspiring English sources

The Chinatown where I spent much of my childhood, in Lower Manhattan, was a messy jumble of street hawkers, sludgy outdoor fish markets and streaming New Year's dragons; it was crowded, smelly, hectic and, to a kid, overwhelmingly vast.

Many of the pieces of the ensemble are great, but when you put them together, all you can see is a messy jumble, and the bad things distract from the good.

One day while working on a Web project they accidentally omitted a bracket from the computer code, and the resulting Web page was a messy jumble of text and characters.

He said he was committed to helping the F.B.I. "Anything they need, I will help them out," Mr. Khan said on Tuesday, standing amid a messy jumble of belongings.

Instead of a messy, sticky jumble that makes it impossible to find cardamom in a crisis, Lisa had a serenely alphabetized drawer in which dozens of jars lay in neat rows on a slight incline (to make it easier to grab the right one).

When everything is jumbled up into a messy knot in your head, by writing it down in a diary, you can undo this knot.

A messy end".

You had a messy childhood.

A messy structure of government.

It's a messy business".

Collaboration is a messy business.