62 examples of mix-up in sentences

"You must have got stiff from standing still after the late mix-up.

Well, perhaps you won't shout just so loud when you know me and some of my mates are going up in that region ourselves, to-morrow, to see old Bud Rabig, the trapper, and if we have any trouble with you sissies there's bound to be a high old mix-up, see?"

It's a general mix-up, you know: Hamlet, and Sairy Gamp, and Rip Van Winkle, and Old Mother Hubbard, and everybody.

It was a nasty mix-up, because they used knives and we relied on hands and fists.

The whole journey was a mix-up of things to wonder atnot least of them the matter-of-fact confidence with which the train proceeded along a single track, whose condition left you wondering at each bump whether the next wouldn't be the journey's violent end.

Well, there was going to be a crash and a general mix-up.

No matter where you finish in the mix-up or the row, There are those among the rabble who will pan you anyhow; But the entry who is sticking and delivering the stuff Can listen to the yapping as he giggles up his cuff; The loafer has no come-back and the quitter no reply When the Anvil Chorus echoes, as it will, against the sky; But there's one quick answer ready that will wrap them in a hood Make good.

"Good heavens, just to think I've come to the tame and effete east to plunge into the midst of such an exciting mix-up," laughed Mr. Bell, "I was in Roanoke seeing about the shipment of some supplies when I saw, in a newspaper, that the contests for the naval contract were to take place here.

In the mix-up that followed Joel found himself sprawling over the runner, with Cloud sitting astride the small of his back, a very uncomfortable part of the body with which to support a weighty opponent.

The end of the bout found them in a happy-go-lucky mix-up, each striking blindly.

Out of the mix-up he suddenly straightened himself.

And I told him, of course, I had; that it had been perfectly beautiful there, even if there had been such a mix-up of him getting ready for Marie, and Mother sending Mary.

there were reactions when his human humorous selfbacked by ten years of the printerytold him that the world is a complex mix-up, and that there are many visions; moments that made him wonder what he was about, and why so untrained a man expected to achieve such marvels.

One of them picked up Ned's searchlight, which had fallen to the floor when Jimmie bunted its owner, and turned its rays on the mix-up under the window.

It was quite a mix-up, but we managed to capture nineteen head of good horses.

Catch them having a senseless mix-up like that!

But now, there was something in the look of the sky and in the feel of the air to make us fearful that the mix-up of the seasons had been discovered, and that winter was being prodded to the front.

We are in danger of an awful mix-up if we don't look out.

SayJudge Harney got into a bad mix-up, didn't he?

Gee, what a mix-up!

"Then there is a mix-up and everybody piles inand there is a massacre!"

"Dear Cousin Margaret: "I have decided, suddenly, to go across the pond and get in the big mix-up.

She would be alone, free to reveal the truth of all this strange mix-up of affairs; perhaps the old trust, the old confidence between them would be renewed.

He had been speaking of the blockade of Cuba, and insistently called upon to tell about Santiago, said: "Of our little scrap, it was the prettiest mix-up that was ever seen.

So many Englishmen are in Russian uniform, Belgian uniform, French uniform, or a mix-up uniform that there is no possibility of my Cockney Russian being recognised by the authorities, and the photograph which my neutral friend took of him and me was taken under the very eyes of his Landsturmer.

62 examples of  mix-up  in sentences