hurly-burly
Example Sentences
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So after this week of diplomatic hurly burly, how much has changed?
From BBC • May 16, 2025
As much as the hurly burly of the Coen brothers’ movies might seem distant from Shakespearean tragedy, their films are crowded with schemers seized by misguided ambitions — just usually more farcical ones.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2021
I need to do that outside of the hurly burly of the regular office.
From Reuters • Oct. 23, 2020
I didn’t see the call when it came in, in the hurly burly of things I didn’t notice.
From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2016
Their servants, who had known in childhood the hurly burly of caravanserais and slave markets, told them of a world where everybody was possessed by a thousand devils of ingenuity and wit.
From Sacrifice by Whitman, Stephen French
