Pell-mell

//ˈpɛlˈmɛl//

"Pell-mell" in a Sentence (14 examples)

He put his things pell-mell in the bag.

Nor moody Beggars, ſtaruing for a time / Of pell-mell hauocke, and confusion.

These present the appearance of masses of water-worn gravel, mixed in the most pell mell confusion, the boulders being often of very large size; but I observed no striae, nor any of the blue tenacious clay of the Till, which it so much resembled.

The whole district presents the most pell-mell throwing together imaginable.

The pell mell, hell for leather traffic of Lagos was more pell mell, hell for leather than ever.

The cattle are less disciplined, more pell-mell, heavy-footed, their hooves stamping the ground to mud in several places.

China’s pell-mell, brisk urbanization has in some ways made the challenge harder to face.

But ſeeing that there the murdring Enemie, / Peſle-meſle, purſued them like a ſtorme of hayle, / They gan retyre vvhere Iuba vvas encampt; […]

Never was there a great battle fought more pell-mell, since war began; never was valor so completely thrown away.

The table was covered with a confusion of papers, books, pamphlets, all heaped upon one another pell-mell; […]

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Pell-mell they rushed for Inverness and safety, leaving the strange battlefield to the stalwart five.

A group of the reapers whom we had seen running from the fields were lying all pell-mell, their bodies crossing each other, at the bottom of it.

And the prompter our payments the more pell-mell the news came in and the more obligingly gruesome its detail.

Some are already packed up well; / Others are at it, most pell mell.

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