hurly-burly
Example Sentences
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Mr. Howard observes that his preference for country living distinguished him in the book world, and he spent a lot of his adult life in small-town Connecticut, serenely removed from the urban hurly-burly.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
Yet by 2021’s “Solar Power,” Lorde was singing about abandoning the hurly-burly of pop stardom in the always-on social-media era.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2025
It is this connection between the well-being of people and the functioning of government that often gets lost or forgotten in the hurly-burly of debate over the locus and exercise of governing power.
From Washington Post • Jan. 20, 2023
One of a potted orchid on a windowsill overlooking a blurry view of the Hudson poignantly suggests a retreat from the hurly-burly of life.
From New York Times • Nov. 25, 2022
I gazed upon this urban hurly-burly like someone observing a city from a hot-air balloon.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
