helter-skelter
Example Sentences
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Challambra Hill climb before the final helter-skelter dash to the finish.
From Barron's • Feb. 1, 2026
In the contemporary, helter-skelter sweep of Mexico City, there is one place — in the southern borough of Xochimilco — where a vision of a watery, pre-Columbian capital may still be imagined.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
That helter-skelter transition threw much of the economics of entertainment out of whack.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2023
Mixmups follows three friends - Pockets, Giggles and Spin - who live in a helter-skelter house in Mixington Valley, which Rebecca says was inspired by Great Yarmouth.
From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023
While the roosters shrieked, the hens scrambled helter-skelter, commenting shrilly on the action: they clucked hysterically; they cackled obscenely; sometimes their alarmed voices were like machine guns.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
