Sample Sentences formotley (editor-reviewed)
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The crowd was a motley mix of artists, musicians, and tourists.motley = varied
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She wore a motley outfit of clashing patterns and bright colors.motley = mixed
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The man wore motley. (source)motley = a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads
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Now they'd escaped as a motley flock, clucking far in the trees beyond.† (source)
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I had thought you were the one made for motley, Tyrion, but it would appear that I was wrong.† (source)
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They say it was a pretty motley assembly.† (source)
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They were a motley assortment of all ages from all over the world.† (source)
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From obscure philatelic journals furnished her by Genghis Cohen, an ambiguous footnote in Motleys Rise of the Dutch Republic, an 80-year-old pamphlet on the roots of modern anarchism, a book of sermons by Blobb's brother Augustine also among Bortz's Wharfingeriana, along with Blobb's original clues, Oedipa was able to fit together this account of how the organization began: In 1577, the northern provinces of the Low Countries, led by the Protestant noble William of Orange, had been struggling nine years for independence from Catholic Spain and a Catholic Holy Roman Emperor.† (source)
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A bright fire was burning in the middle of the floor, at the other end of the barn; and around it, and lit weirdly up by the red glare, lolled and sprawled the motliest company of tattered gutter-scum and ruffians, of both sexes, he had ever read or dreamed of.† (source)
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The male was dressed in motley and grinning rabidly, holding a cane or a stick.† (source)
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Oh, no, she wouldn't go away, for she's the wife of a man the Motleys have, their coachman.† (source)
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On that wall hung the motliest assortment of things Carley had ever seen—utensils, sheep and cow hides, saddles, harness, leather clothes, ropes, old sombreros, shovels, stove pipe, and many other articles for which she could find no name.† (source)
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Leonardo's motley team had taken over an entire wing with their mania.† (source)
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"He wouldn't have sold," she said, "the Motleys won't sell a servant."† (source)
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Sitting so close to the desk, I could see that the covers of the books, a motley red, were badly worn and that the gray edges of the pages had been marred by pencils, crayons, and ink.† (source)
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With that, the motley assembly stumbled into the night, leaving the Count to approach the bar in relative peace and quiet.† (source)
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