Sentence Examples

1. People dressed in garish motley and flamboyant tunics milled around a camp filled with carts bursting full of oddities.
2. Basil said a word, nor Cicero had any knowledge nor do the niceties of truth nor the observations of astrology come within the range of its fanciful vagaries nor have geometrical measurements or refutations of the arguments used in rhetoric anything to do with it nor does it mean to preach to anybody, mixing up things human and divine, a sort of motley in which no Christian understanding should dress itself.
3. She wished she could take him aside and tell him not to let his nervousness show in front of this motley crew.
4. We were a motley crew of blood and grime and boobs.
5. That motley crew sailed the sea rarely, if ever, coming to shore stalking the sea lanes.
6. A motley crew standing ready for inspection before they headed out, carried a smorgasbord of knuckledusters, helmets, firearms and swords.
7. I pushed through the door setting the jangling chime off and took my time while wandering along the musty smelling aisles, gazing over the motley collection.
8. Other wolves and bears stood at right angles to her, forming a motley network of bodyguards.
9. Passepartout wandered for several hours in the midst of this motley crowd, looking in at the windows of the rich and curious shops, the jewellery establishments glittering with quaint Japanese ornaments, the restaurants decked with streamers and banners, the tea-houses, where the odorous beverage was being drunk with saki, a liquor concocted from the fermentation of rice, and the comfortable smoking-houses, where they were puffing, not opium, which is almost unknown in Japan, but a very fine, stringy tobacco.