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adjective

eclectic

CEFR C1

deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad range of sources

In a sentence

Six example sentences with eclectic, each labelled with its topic.

  • Her set list is gloriously eclectic, moving from Malian guitar to Baroque cello and closing with a techno track.

    Music

  • The house is eclectic by design, with a Japanese garden, Victorian tiling, and a glass wall from a Milan showroom.

    Architecture

  • His eclectic menu borrows from Peruvian, Korean, and Sicilian kitchens, and somehow the whole thing tastes deliberate.

    Cooking

  • Her eclectic reading list paired a Norse saga with a cookbook and a manual on beekeeping.

    Literature

  • The gallery's eclectic collection hangs a medieval altarpiece beside a video installation and a quilt.

    Art

  • His eclectic itinerary mixed a monastery, a motor race, and a night market into one long weekend.

    Travel

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