How to Use admixture in a Sentence

admixture

noun

• That odd admixture of cultures is where snooker gets its old-school charm and humor.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 1 May 2020
• The shadings, to be sure, are infinite, and so is the admixture.
  — David Mermelstein, WSJ, 1 Aug. 2017
• Lives turn out through some admixture of genes, environment, luck and pluck.
  — Michael Shermer, WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• This was the Steam Age; the admixture of fire and water was known to hold great power.
  — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
• Water, sand, cement and admixtures were precisely mixed on demand.
  — Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 16 May 2026
• Any pretense of the pure or organic is undercut by a kind of willful alchemy; everything is an admixture.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
• By studying this effect, the age of the admixture was estimated to around 1681.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• Wastewater, by its very nature, is an admixture of material from lots of different households.
  — Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
• As can be expected, the admixture This article is part of our premium archives.
  — Andrew Gawthorpe, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2017
• Even if there wasn't any recent admixture, ~1,000 generations of drift is not trivial.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Nov. 2013
• The admixture between European and Khoe-San was more common than church records suggest.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• One thing to observe though is that the frequency of A within Africa can not be explained by recent Eurasian admixture.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2013
• Heavily influenced by jazz, Batiste’s music brings forth an admixture of concert-goers.
  — Allison Hazel, Essence, 9 June 2021
• The show was an admixture of past hits and that year’s debuts; the beer was pricey, liquor was unsmuggleable and the audience was over-indexed with toddler bjorns and upmarket strollers.
  — Mina Tavakoli, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2023
• The early admixture of the media (including social media) will insure the perfect sludginess.
  — Jena Friedman, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• Now that every platform offers a similar admixture of text, images, and video, choosing where to spend your time feels more like picking your preferred flavor of brain poison.
  — Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
• The research found that the Tarim Basin mummies showed no sign of admixture (a scientific term for having babies) with other groups that lived at the same time.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 27 Oct. 2021
• Populations even without admixture or gene flow will have drifted in allele frequencies over so many generations.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Oct. 2013
• In each, there’s some strange admixture of everyday levity and historical gravity.
  — Kyle Vanhemert, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2013
• The looming fact of racial admixture, especially with white people, may be said to form the grit in the pearl of Asian American consciousness today.
  — Vulture, 27 Sep. 2022
• Some, of night skies, embed white dots, for stars, in glazes of a dense black, with subliminal admixtures of, Celmins recently told me, ultramarine, raw umber, and ochre.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• There was always an admixture of delight, which tempered any inclination to be sniffish about the Americana that Thiebaud painted.
  — Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2021
• African Americans have long range LD because the admixture was relatively recent.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2013
• Their daring admixture of styles, materials and scales reads like a mission statement for a style that neither idolizes modern technology nor romanticizes the past.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2021
• Once a week in Houser’s apartment, the duo would power through creative sessions fueled by an admixture of anchovy onion pizza, diet Cokes, and cigarettes.
  — Ade D. Adeniji, Wired, 27 Oct. 2021
• On Disc 3, the Spike Orchestra fuses klezmer with surf rock in an oddly resonant admixture, run through the apparatus of a jazz big band.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2018
• John, lucky in everything, had received the enhancing admixture of dark, French Mediterranean, Bouvier blood.
  — Jeffrey Eugenides, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2026
• So, too is that admixture of high glamour and drawstring comfort that defines the actual relationship between Hollywood and fashion.
  — New York Times, 9 Feb. 2020
• And something about that created the urban atmosphere, the impressionistic quality, the implication of street noise and urban admixture, and that all really worked for me.
  — The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• As a result, traces of Denisovan DNA live on in some humans today — something interbreeding geneticists call admixture.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 14 May 2026