Sentence examples for a terrible mix from inspiring English sources

It seemed that he was under the influence of a terrible mix of both medication and a lot of alcohol.

The men trudged on, wading through a terrible mix of snow and filthy red mud toward the house where Potter was known to be that night.

12.42am GMT Dear England Selectors, "Due to a terrible mix up and misunderstanding, I have just remembered I am in fact Zimbabwean.

Instead, the French side, playing a holding game, came to punish uncharacteristically poor Munich defending, first through Yoann Gourcuff's header following a free kick, then through Marouane Chamakh's running free to score in the last minute on a terrible mix up between goalie Hans-Jörg Butt and his defense.

"It took even the president more than three years to appreciate and understand that it [Boko Haram] is a terrible mix of poor education or lack of education, misinterpretation of what Islam and the Koran teach and stand for," he said.

Parents and carers will be familiar with the phenomenon whereby their kids pick up on entertainment trends in the playground and only get them half-right, but this was a terrible mix-up, verging on heresy.

Recognizing this affinity, many Christian readers felt that in Hitchens's case there had somehow been a terrible mix-up, and that a writer who loved the King James Bible and "Brideshead Revisited" surely belonged with them, rather than with the bloodless prophets of a world lit only by Science.

The paradox, of course, is that in the span of a few city blocks Culpepper had gone from being honored for his courage as a black quarterback to being asked to leave a trendy Manhattan club, either because of a terrible mix-up or a racial double standard.

The only problem was they were supposed to give "Moonlight" that honor, and there had been a terrible mix-up behind the scenes.

In a terrible mix-up, Norma thinks she is being called to Mr. DeMille's office about the script, when it turns out all they wanted was her unusual car.

It's hard to give a reader the sense of the terrible mix of the awful and the banal if you're not on the ground.