Used in a Sentence

mixtures

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for mixtures.

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Particular mixtures of sweeteners are used in diet foods sweeteners in order to better simulate the taste of sugar.

Examples15
Definitions4
Parts of speech1

Quick take

Something produced by mixing.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mixtures gathered in one view.

noun

Something produced by mixing.

noun

Something that consists of diverse elements.

noun

The act of mixing.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mixtures.

noun

Something produced by mixing.

noun

Something that consists of diverse elements.

noun

The act of mixing.

noun

A medicinal compound, typically a suspension of a solid in a solution

Example sentences

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Particular mixtures of sweeteners are used in diet foods sweeteners in order to better simulate the taste of sugar.

2

Powder mixtures can do just as much damage and they don't screen for those at all.

3

Well, even if you prefer classes, you've now got to reason about prototypes and classes, and possible mixtures of both.

4

Even worse are mixtures of signed and unsigned operands in expressions; luckily, C compilers tend to have reasonably decent warnings about that.

5

These spice mixtures sound an awful lot like recipes, rather than inventions, and recipes should already be unpatentable (in the US, anyway).

6

There are miscellaneous variants and mixtures of these types but these are the essentials.

7

What is already happening are the first beginnings of joint stock ownership developing (DAC's) with mixtures of online formal agreements and informal agreements.

8

The test questions were just mixtures of questions from previous years.

9

Asking the typical medical doctor about diet and fitness is like asking a used car salesman about fuel and oil mixtures for a F1 engine.

10

As others have replied, hydrazine has a long history for RCS systems in spacecraft, and kerosene + oxidizer mixtures have long been used for propulsion engines.

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When you start needing solid error handling while dealing with multiple async processes with complex mixtures of parallel and sequential...bluebird works, async just ends up as a mess.

12

Something that would hit all of these fuel-air explosive mixtures would be an oxygen scavenger, which would also likely make the electrical and mechanical stuff inside the machine happier.

Quote examples

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> Jordan’s “acid test” involved coloured discs showing different mixtures of pigment, such as a green made of yellow and blue.

2

There are about 98 pesticides (of those 10 are herbicides) in bee pollen: "The 98 pesticides and metabolites detected in mixtures up to 214 ppm in bee pollen alone represents a remarkably high level for toxicants in the brood and adult food of this primary pollinator.

3

Of the 11 comets for which measurements have been made, it is only the Jupiter-family Comet 103P/Hartley 2 that was found to match the composition of Earth’s water, in observations made by ESA’s Herschel mission in 2011." When I first read the headline, I wasn't sure if the claim was that the water vapor had mixtures of other chemical molecules in it, or what.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use mixtures in a sentence?

Particular mixtures of sweeteners are used in diet foods sweeteners in order to better simulate the taste of sugar.

What does mixtures mean?

Something produced by mixing.

What part of speech is mixtures?

mixtures is commonly used as noun.