hurly-burly
Example Sentences
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And for Rylance, the hurly burly of theater — “a dance with the audience,” he calls it — has always most propelled him as an actor.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 1, 2022
Hibs began to look accomplished amidst the hurly burly of the game.
From BBC • May 4, 2016
Bobby Moore had about him a serenity on the football field's hurly burly that never, in my slight experience, has been matched.
From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013
New justices must adjust to another sort of hurly burly, as Justice Kagan, who joined the court in 2010, learned at one point during Tuesday’s argument.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2012
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
