Sample Sentences for
potpourri
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

potpourri as in:  a potpourri packet in the drawer

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She made potpourri for her friends at Christmas.
potpourri = mixed flower petals and spices appreciated for their scent
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    She makes her own potpourri.
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    Our house hasn't lost its Nana-ness though, with its permanent odor of potpourri, flowered wallpaper, and hints of pink in almost every room.  (source)
    potpourri = mixed flower petals and spices
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    Three baby-food jars of potpourri don't make a dent in the stink.  (source)
    potpourri = mixed flower petals and spices appreciated for their scent
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    The foyer still smelled like Dove soap and potpourri— just as it had when the DiLaurentises lived here.  (source)
    potpourri = mixed flower petals and spices appreciated for their scent
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    Your Potpourris and Miroshkas are people without a conscience.†  (source)
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    The air smelled of potpourri.  (source)
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    Lying very still under the eiderdown, I breathed the dark air of dried-out potpourri and burnt fireplace wood and—very faint—the evergreen tang of turpentine, resin, and varnish.†  (source)
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    It smelled like Irish Spring and a little bit like potpourri and like something she couldn't describe any way other than boy.†  (source)
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    "With a hint of potpourri," he said.†  (source)
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    I closed the door behind me, shutting out the bondieuserie, the low ceiling, the chintz, the lambskin bindings, the views of Florence, the bowls of hyacinth and potpourri, the petit-point, the intimate feminine, modern world and was back under the coved and coffered roof, the columns and entablature of the central hall, in the august, masculine atmosphere of a better age.†  (source)
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    As soon as Miss Katie opens heir door the smell of air fresheners and scented potpourri hits you.†  (source)
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    The boat looked like part of a ghost fleet, a mothballed potpourri of poor design.†  (source)
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    The whole upstairs smelled like roses, some kind of sachets or potpourri; it made me think of a doll I'd had once, a doll with bright red hair who was scented to smell like a rose and I had secretly named her Angela and hidden her for safety in the heating vent, not realizing that she was going to fall far below where I'd never be able to find her.†  (source)
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potpourri as in:  a potpourri of programs to...

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Her playlist includes a potpourri of jazz and classical music.
potpourri = unusual mixture
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    They recommend a potpourri of new taxes to raise more money.
    potpourri = mixture
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    But a cocktail is not meant to be a mélange. It is not a potpourri or an Easter parade. At its best, a cocktail should be crisp, elegant, sincere—and limited to two ingredients.  (source)
    potpourri = a mixture of many different things
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    You wanted to know ‘everything that could be dug up’ about him, but gave no indication of whether there were anything in particular you were looking for. For this reason it's something of a potpourri of his life.  (source)
    potpourri = mixture of different aspects
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I gentle the big quilt from its place of honor on the living room couch, shake it onto the floor beneath the big picture windows, marveling for about the thousandth time at the patience Mom must have had to patch the pieces all together. Then I go get Hunter, lay him in the center of the colorful fabric potpourri, lie down next to him, and marvel for about the millionth time at how stunningly handsome he is.  (source)
potpourri = mixture of fabrics
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