MIX in a Sentence

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For MIX, below is one of 190 sentences:
I may be on their side in a political crisis, but being on their side makes me know how impossible it is to mix one's life with theirs.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIX
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mix
 n.  a combination of different kinds
Classic Sentence: (131 in 9 pages)
1  "Jones used sometimes to mix some of it in our mash," said one of the hens.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
2  Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
3  I may be on their side in a political crisis, but being on their side makes me know how impossible it is to mix one's life with theirs.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
4  My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he's very proud and doesn't like to mix with his neighbors.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWO
5  There was a man born blind, who had several apprentices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and smelling.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
6  But they learnt, on enquiry, that its possessor, an elderly lady of very good character, was unfortunately too infirm to mix with the world, and never stirred from home.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9
7  I mix with all the neighboring landowners, who are cultivating their land on a rational system; they all, with rare exceptions, are doing so at a loss.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
8  "Don't you mix yourself up in this affair," said Thenardier.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
9  No, let us not mix their corpses with our own.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
10  "Never mix cards and whisky unless you were weaned on Irish poteen," Gerald told Pork gravely the same evening, as Pork assisted him to bed.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Of course, he did mix with a rakish set of fellows at that time, drank freely and borrowed money on all sides.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
12  Lo, discord is ripened at thy desire into baleful war: tell them now to mix in amity and join alliance.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
13  We melt strange metals, and we mix acids, and we cut open the bodies of the animals which we find in the City Cesspool.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
14  Only a little true tenderness had been mixed into her love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  Any unexpected noise or sharp word set him to trembling, for in his mind noises and harsh words were inextricably mixed with Yankees and he was more afraid of Yankees than of Prissy's hants.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (59 in 4 pages)
16  You can't mix oil with water.
17  In my job, I mix with all sorts of people.
18  The new tower is a unique mix of a distinctive form, ingenious structure, and spatial qualities of sky-high living.
19  That glaze is just a mix of strained pulp and sugar.
20  Since e-bikes have been added to the mix, the term granny-pace has a whole new meaning as riders -often the elderly or parents ferrying children- overtake young racers without breaking a sweat.
21  The group took on a mix of investigations and new probes into misrepresentations by securities originators and underwriters, failures to repurchase problematic loans and failures to transfer ownership of collateral into the securities in question.
22  Here's an activity you can do with mixed ability classes.
23  Add a teaspoonful of mixed herbs.
24  I had mixed feelings when I learned of your new assignment.
25  She is of mixed European and African descent.
26  I had mixed feelings about meeting Laura again.
27  Research on athletes and ordinary human subjects has yielded a mixed bag of results.
28  Oils may be mixed with a base oil and massaged into the skin.
29  He mixed up some plaster to repair the wall.
30  I found a very mixed group of individuals some of whom I could relate to and others with whom I had very little in common.